Word: cautioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that type of wary caution that has typified Saudi rulers since the birth of the kingdom 70 years ago. Until recently, Abdullah was as careful as the rest. These days however, the Crown Prince seems to be disregarding his own advice, throwing the ball off course with deliberation...
...through a pack of Vantage cigarettes, his bottom line is that change will come, but at a Saudi pace. "It is more rational to change gradually," he explains. "There is less disruption to the social balance." Even a reforming al Saud, it seems, can't escape that wary caution...
Wealthy individuals now have some $5 billion in private equity, less than 10% of a pie that remains dominated by pensions and endowments. An investor with less than $3 million may not get decent diversification, and advisers caution that private equity should be no more than 10% of a portfolio. "That level doesn't add a lot of overall risk but can juice returns," says Don Weigandt, a wealth adviser at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. The perfect candidate, then, is worth $30 million or more...
...more than 100 cases of men suffering heart attacks while on Viagra, studies funded by Pfizer had determined that its erection drug posed no risk to men with stable hearts. Now the first independent study, using stationary bicycles to simulate the exertion of sex, has confirmed Pfizer's results. Caution: stay off the pill if you've had a recent heart attack, your heart disease is severe or you're on medication containing nitrates...
...variety of reasons, radiologists in the U.S. tend to err on the side of caution. That is, they identify lots of "abnormalities," of which only 2% to 11% prove to be cancerous--either DCIS or an invasive tumor. Sometimes a second mammogram or an ultrasound provides the necessary reassurance. Other times, a biopsy--which entails the removal of some breast tissue--is required to resolve any ambiguity. Here the odds of finding cancer rise to about 25%, which means that 75% of biopsies come back negative...