Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the group. "Fifty billion dollars is 1% of gross domestic product," Tobin adds, noting that it would not be an excessive stimulus. "One could argue that $50 billion is not enough." But Robert Solow, an M.I.T. Nobel laureate who also backed the plan, provides a note of caution. Says he: "The stimulus idea still applies now, but who can tell what conditions are going to be like at the end of January...
BILL CLINTON HAS BEEN ELECTED TO FIX THE ECONOMY. Everything else is secondary. He knows it, and the nation expects it. The question is how to deliver. After promising change and offering hope during the campaign, the President-elect is currently counseling caution and patience. Each bow to urgency (the people want "aggressive and prompt action, and I'm going to give it to them") is coolly qualified: "We didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight...
...other hand, the Clintons were schooled in caution by the mixed reception Hillary received during the campaign, and they may continue to move carefully. When the Governor talked about "buy one, get one free" and possibly appointing Hillary to the Cabinet, her popularity took a dive. "People have changed their attitude about Hillary," says pollster Peter Hart, "but if they see her reinforcing one of their earlier negative feelings, they won't like her." Last week when leaders in the field of family law sent her a thick proposal to bring all the varied government programs on families and children...
...from just the region and class that felt most betrayed by the '60s agenda of social reform. And yet what he has made of himself -- a professional educated at elite institutions -- is the demographic type most supportive of that agenda. His so-called centrism is not the centrism of caution: it reflects, rather, a heartfelt negotiation between creeds that are bitterly in conflict but do not have to be so. Clinton's personal devils are our national devils...
...high school, where everyone knew each other and gossiped and skipped classes slyly and with caution, my friends longed to escape...far far away...to a college where everyone knows each other and gossips and skips classes with reckless abandon. My graduation year, as is always the case, a dozen or so Wyoming High School students enrolled in Miami University...