Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...note of caution is due. Insiders can blow it. Anticipating a favorable business climate, six corporate officers at Southwest Gas last year loaded up on the company's stock at prices averaging 15. The stock climbed as high as 18, but then the company was jolted by a succession of negative developments. A ruling by the Office of Thrift Supervision forced Southwest to set aside $17 million to cover bad loans in its savings-bank division. And the company's request for a $43 million rate hike was put off by the Arizona public-service commission. Southwest's stock...
...taken a hand with its deployment of peacekeeping troops to Croatia -- 8,000 of the authorized 14,000 are already in place. But now hand- wringing has begun over whether, given the human and financial costs, to put such a force in Bosnia. Some observers caution that Croatia is a poor example: however unintended, the presence of the Blue Helmets in that country has served to safeguard Serbian conquests...
...Harvard students should adopt the friendliness rules of Wal-Mart. If you come within 10 feet of another individual, smile, look them in the eye and greet them with either hello, good morning or my, you look ravishing. (Caution: Use the third greeting sparingly, lest you appear insincere.) Even if you do not attract members of the opposite sex, you will at least contribute to making Harvard a more civil place...
...there is a balance to be struck here. The days of "full steam ahead" and "damn the torpedoes" are long over. It doesn't mean we come to a full stop: it does mean we need to proceed with caution and awareness of the consequences of our actions on the environment. We aren't just talking about spotted owls and beetles. We're talking about big blue whales, rain forests, and human being...
...goodwill gestures in the world seem unlikely to deflect the growing movement toward further government regulations of the pharmaceutical industry. Experts caution, however, that hastily written rules, even if they are produced with the best of intentions, can backfire. The Orphan Drug Act, for instance, was passed in 1983 to encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases. The law provides an extra economic incentive, in the form of a seven-year monopoly, to companies that market products for maladies that afflict fewer than 200,000 people. Though it has done some good, it has also been widely blamed...