Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five months after assuming the mantle of power, members of the new majority are a little more guarded about the shape of the city's future. While CCA-backers say they have made definite progress, they caution that the type of change they are bringing about is not always apparent at weekly council meetings...
...lending caution reflects a backlash against the era of financial fraud and excess. After the collapse of hundreds of savings and loans, the Government last year barred S&Ls from lending amounts representing more than 15% of their capital to any one customer. The previous limit was 100%, which allowed some S&Ls to sink themselves by committing a dangerously large amount to a single venture. Moreover, federal examiners began using strict new requirements to judge the quality of lending by commercial banks. "When regulators are being tough, bankers too have to be very cautious in terms of the credit...
...wake of the desecrations, 2,000 French Jews applied to immigrate to Israel; the usual weekly average is 50. But experts on ethnic conflict caution against alarm. Says sociologist Pierre-Andre Taguieff: "Today antiracism is growing faster than racism. The anti-Semites are marginal...
...often read as an imperative call to revolutionary struggle, but there is nothing peremptory or fanatical in them once they are stripped of their poetic imagery. Reflections rejected all extremes, the intransigence of revolutionaries and reactionaries alike. It called for compromise and for progress moderated by enlightened conservatism and caution. Marx notwithstanding, evolution is a better "locomotive of history" than revolution: the "battle" I had in mind was nonviolent...
Some 30 Western correspondents crowded into our apartment on Aug. 21. I said I supported detente, since it reduced the risk of war, but added that caution, unity and firmness of purpose were necessary on the part of the West as it embarked on a new and more complex relationship with the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union, I said, is a country "behind a mask," a closed, totalitarian society capable of dangerously unpredictable actions. Detente would promote international security only if the West avoided letting the U.S.S.R. achieve military superiority and at the same time tried to promote a more open...