Word: caution
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lighted candles encircled a rainbow flag on the grass, and yellow "CAUTION" tape enclosed the area...
...lovingly, lavishing hugs and kisses on her. Then they turn savage, scratching and dragging her to the ground, where she is left battered and bleeding. The heavy-handed metaphor is meant to represent Mother Earth's treatment by humans, but it might just as well serve as a caution for Greenpeace itself...
...murder of Polly Klaas, California and other states rushed to pass "three strikes'' sentencing laws with little thought for their effect on prisons and the courts. Now many legal observers worry about what changes, intended and unintended, the Simpson spectacle may engender. "Reforms will come speedily and without great caution or thought,'' predicts Brandeis professor Jeffrey Abramson, who wrote We, The Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy. Says Yale Kamisar, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School: "If I were teaching criminal law tomorrow, I couldn't look my students in the eye. What...
Against all odds, however, in the end the American justice system survived. The system is biased toward the defendant to protect American citizens from arbitrary government and police power--take Mark Fuhrman. We are prepared to accept that a guilty man might go free as the price of the caution inherent in our judicial system...
...through using public funds for things like that," Powell said. Perhaps not, but no one who knows him thinks there is much of anything Colin Powell hasn't thought through. In this instance, Powell's nonresponse, which robs his pro-choice stance of an important real-world consequence, reveals caution rather than ignorance--and a finely honed political instinct as well. To a favorite Powell maxim, "Don't make a decision until you have to," one should probably add, "And don't rub it in unless you must...