Word: caution
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experts caution that the device will work only when combined with counseling, which should include advice on setting a "quit date" and on coping with the urges that will persist even with the patch in place. Unfortunately, physicians have a poor record in this regard. Less than half of 2,700 smokers surveyed for a study in last week's Journal said their doctors had ever advised them to kick the habit or even to cut down...
...wake of the Challenger tragedy six years ago, the space agency put a premium on caution -- but only up to a point. NASA's top ranks are dominated by gung-ho former astronauts who are determined to keep launches on a tight schedule. An apparent victim of that policy is FORREST MCCARTNEY, director of the Kennedy Space Center, who was forced out last month after he twice refused to approve a final "go for launch" because of safety concerns. Both flights went smoothly after the problems were fixed -- in one case a hydrogen-fuel leak and in another a warped...
Furthermore, as a word of advice from one Arab to another, I feel compelled to caution members of the Society to heed the fate of the PLO--an organization shrouded in miscalculations, now virtually dead and buried. Bader A. EI-Jeaan '95 President, Gulf Arab Alliance
...terrifying: tens of thousands of nuclear weapons of every size and range, all under the control of a dictator in Moscow who could order them launched at will. Now that seems like the good old days. The world gradually came to trust whoever ruled in the Kremlin to exercise caution lest a nuclear war annihilate the Soviet Union along with the rest of the planet. But suppose the arsenal was so split up that no one would even know who might be able to order the detonation of how much of it. It could happen soon, and there...
...explanation could be traced to last August, when the botched Soviet coup gave the Baltic republics the final opening to bolt from the U.S.S.R. The U.S. dragged its feet in recognizing their independence, and Bush's critics wondered why he had taken so long. In diplomatic terms, Bush's ! caution was understandable, but it hurt him among conservative Republicans, who are looming ever larger in White House political thinking as rightist political columnist Patrick Buchanan prepares for a presidential...