Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership of the party and occupancy of No. 10 Downing Street that had begun three weeks before when Harold Wilson resigned. After 13 years of tutelage by Wilson, master of the cautious choice, most of the voting Labor M.P.s had opted for a few more years of pragmatic caution under Callaghan rather than the financial strains for battered Britain of a more pronounced leftward turn under Foot...
...computer trouble since the New Hampshire race, and was using a manual analysis of results. Man did no better than machine, though NBC is convinced it would have seen the closeness of the race had its computer been operational. CBS was saved by nothing more complicated than proper caution and a set of sample precincts that more accurately weighed the rural vote...
Franken and Davis did discover what people wanted. Their success came when they were still so young--Franken is 24, Davis 23--that comedians constantly caution them "not to burn out." Franken, sitting in his comfortable chair, was not disturbed. His only worry, he said, was when he would get a vacation from his writing job, not to relax, but to perform stand-up comedy...
...programs aimed at alleviating national frustrations-could go too far, Moynihan warns. At the moment, that leaves us with only a vague sense of what we should do, of what direction social policy should take. That implies a lessening of faith in government intervention and suggests a need for caution before engineering new interventions in our lives...
...with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...