Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the University Community are urged to exercise special caution in handling incoming mail, especially padded manila envelopes, packages that appear to contain videotapes, plastic boxes, copper tubing or batteries, or parcels that bear unfamiliar return addresses," the message said...
...Harvard is to compete in research and continue to attract top students, professors caution, the capital campaign money must come through...
...they have discovered a gene that, when defective, triggers obesity in mice. The gene apparently works by helping the body regulate appetite and metabolism. Already the team has found a similar gene in humans. Experts hope the finding could someday lead to better medical treatments for obesity, although they caution that any practical applications will take at least a decade to develop...
...Paines and other satisfied host families caution that everyone needs to be more clear-eyed. They urge families to interview applicants by phone, check out references and bear in mind that families will get from the experience what they put into it. Despite their own checkered history, the McManamys say when it works well, the program can serve both the au pairs who want an affordable adventure abroad and the families who need affordable child care. "When you have a good au pair, it's a benefit to the household," says T.J. And, Becky adds...
...served flan. Luncheon had been arranged with a caution befitting one of the world's richest fugitives. Nine weeks ago, TIME's reporter in Bogota, Tom Quinn, received a call from a go-between: "The Cali guys have an announcement to make. Do you want to talk to them?" A week later, after an introductory phone chat and a roundabout journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force...