Word: caution
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...many users are likely to throw caution to the winds. Competition within sports is so intense that athletes seem willing to try almost anything to improve performance. Half of surveyed athletes, many of them Olympians, admitted recently that they'd be willing to take a drug even if it was sure to kill them eventually, so long as it would let them win every event they entered five years...
...bleeding edge"--technology that looks exciting but drains budgets. The cost and risk of ultra-new technologies necessitate administrative caution in both academics and residential life, explains Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach...
Still, Yokota cautioned that she and Thompson don't make any links between violent films and children's behavior--though she did provide a word of caution for parents...
...often interpreted as a reflection of the balance of power. A little over a week ago, Jiang called for the strengthening of the role of Communist party cells in privately owned businesses - the latest in a series of statements and decisions over the past year that signal a growing caution over making a great leap forward on the path to capitalism. Last August, Jiang called for a revitalization - rather than privatization - of state-owned enterprises, stressing they'd play an integral role in China's future. And in February, the National People's Congress claimed an increased slice of authority...
...this anxiety by following a strict protocol, says Dr. Smith. "Only patients who are not pregnant and who do not plan to become pregnant should be prescribed thalidomide," he says. Physicians also tend to reserve the drug for patients who do not respond to other treatments - a measure of caution that bears eloquent testimony to the shadow of fear thalidomide may never be able to shake...