Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social event to sip coffee and listen to the BBC." Armed guards patrol the gates and grounds of American compounds, and at Shahin Shahr, colored flags alert residents to the state of security in the complex: a red flag flown means danger, yellow advises caution and white means all clear. Since the system was initiated some time ago, the white flag has not been used...
What keeps such cases droning on is that the lawyers on both sides, trained in caution to begin with, "run an enormous risk by not touching every base," says Yale Law School Professor Geoffrey Hazard. "Look at IBM. If the Government wins, it'll be like dismantling a political state." With the stakes high and their meters running, lawyers are in no rush to judgment, he explains. "Many antitrust counsel make a professional specialty out of procedural maneuver," states a draft of the final report of the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures. "Many others...
...before there was any exchange of ambassadors, and that such an exchange could be indefinitely postponed. Still, Vance was greatly encouraged. He felt that the Israelis would recognize that he had won important concessions from Sadat and therefore react favorably to the trade-offs sought by the Egyptian. Abandoning caution, Vance ventured a statement that, for him, was daring in its finality: "We have finished those two issues." Added the Secretary after arriving in Israel: "We are now in the final stages of the negotiations...
...Iran. But except for the ever suspicious Chinese, diplomats in Kabul have found no evidence that all this was on Moscow's orders. In fact, Soviet representatives in Afghanistan confide that they have advised the feudal country's new rulers to move and talk with caution. Apparently the Russians are wary of being drawn into civil strife in a country on their border, should the Taraki regime run into trouble...
...perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally causes pain." Manners are always simultaneously something more and something less than they seem. They are the body language of a culture, the gesticulations of its soul: in the profound formality of the Japanese, for example, or the surly and almost pathological caution of the Russians, it is possible to divine both personal and national character. Manners can be quite serious; the survival of the tribe always depends upon a kind of cooperative forbearance, which is the essence of manners. It is possible that the best manners have never prevented a man from...