Word: caution
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the stubborn overhang of consumer caution, cash registers have begun to ring more briskly at department stores and other big retail outlets, which were hard hit by the slump. In the first major sign that shoppers are returning, 13 of the top 20 U.S. retailers reported that sales last month increased over May 1990 levels...
...Such caution is only natural, given the blatant failure of the state's existing portion of the interstate highway system...
...epidemic when there were frequent reports that hemophiliacs and other patients were being infected from transfusions. To date, more than 4,100 blood recipients have contracted AIDS. Fearful Americans increasingly are banking their own blood in advance of scheduled operations or giving donations earmarked for family and friends. The caution is understandable: in the past few years the Food and Drug Administration has cited the Red Cross, which provides half the U.S. blood-bank supply, for not following safety procedures designed to guard against the use of HIV-infected blood, for inadvertently releasing blood contaminated with hepatitis and for failing...
...careful of strangers and hurry home, says a mother to her daughter, knowing that the world is a frightful place but not wishing to swaddle a child in fear. Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends...
...easier to prove a rape case now, but not much. Until the 1960s it was virtually impossible without an eyewitness; judges were often required to instruct jurors that "rape is a charge easily made and hard to defend against; so examine the testimony of this witness with caution." But sometimes a rape was taken very seriously, particularly if it involved a black man attacking a white woman -- a crime for which black men were often executed or lynched...