Word: caution
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...these vaguer cautions are potentially more damaging. Unlike Davis’s warning, which could be heeded by avoiding major bridges (although few people actually did so), the Bush administration’s warnings are difficult to act upon. They have been met not by increased caution (how can you be on more than maximum alert?) but by increased xenophobia...
Councillor Timothy P. Toomey, Jr.—saying that most “pit kids” are not actually from Cambridge—advised fiscal caution in funding social services for non-residents...
...interesting to hear the arguments of those idealists who caution the U.S. against military action against the terrorists [AFGHANISTAN, Oct. 22]. Those people fail to see that there is more at stake than catching a handful of psychopaths calling themselves warriors of God. What's at risk is the survival of the West. If we don't want to perish, we must get a firmer grip on our civilization. That includes a relentless fight against all those who threaten it and its values. ALEXANDER RAUH Pegnitz, Germany...
...microscopic weapons they have unleashed. The baby-powder- like substance in the letter opened on Capitol Hill on Oct. 15 does not respect laws and traditions such as gravity and envelopes. So authorities must not continue to abide by the old rules that put public calm before caution, process before speed...
Another reason for caution is the continuing concern over Lipobay, Bayer?s cholesterol-lowering medication. The company estimated that its withdrawal from sale could cost up to $704 million in lost profits this year. "Lipobay was the cornerstone of Bayer?s profitability, and its withdrawal has dramatic consequences for earnings now and in the future," said Guy Phillips, an analyst with the French bank BNP Paribas in London. Worse still, German prosecutors launched an investigation into whether Bayer withdrew Lipobay quickly enough after the medication was linked to those 52 fatalities...