Word: caution
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like so many other U.S. educational reforms, such experiments may well succumb to official caution and orthodoxy. Still, thanks to free schools, it is just possible that quite a few public school kids will some day get a chance to earn A's for Playing with Gentle Glass Things or Writing Letters to Those You Love. To examine one of the freest models, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand last week visited the Exploring Family School, 12 miles from San Diego in El Cajon, Calif., comparing it with his experiences as a history teacher in the Peace Corps...
...inept with peace. In Waterloo, he again directs less than he deploys. Psychological insight is conveyed by closeups of the stars' eyes, interminable crosscuts from the Duke of Wellington to Napoleon Bonaparte and fatuous "voiceover" soliloquies, like Napoleon's: "This Englishman has two qualities that I admire-caution, and above all courage...
...Weiland went on to say that the continual emphasis on offense and attack with the puck is the major downfall of American hockey. "Throwing caution to the wind is the style here, but you can't shoot the puck until you know how to take it away from someone. And the puck doesn't do you any good until you know how to skate...
...alert instructed New Hampshire State Police to "use caution and hold [the trio]." The alert also said the occupants of the car "may be in possession of explosive materials...
Pressure from the Dollar. For all the caution, there is, as French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann commented, "a strong incentive built into the plan to move forward." Indeed so. The Europeans were propelled into unexpectedly early accord by the profligacy of the U.S. For most of two decades. European nations have been accumulating dollars at a rising rate as a result of U.S. balance of payments deficits. Common Market countries complain that the flow of dollars affects interest rates, finances the takeover of European firms by U.S. companies and promotes inflation on the Continent, since central banks have to issue...