Word: cautioned
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...deciding every day, deciding whether the cost of caution is too high, discovering whether we actually fear doing nothing more than doing something that frightens us. Because we know that this is the definition of courage--not an absence of fear but a willingness to live and move in its company, without becoming its hostage. If it weren't frightening, it wouldn't be a war; if it weren't about our most precious freedoms, it wouldn't be worth fighting...
...weeding out suspicious packages and in making accommodations for its employees, such as offering gloves and other means of protection against biological contamination. However, it is also wise not to redirect University mail elsewhere. Doing so would only encourage the hysteria that has already sprouted around mail services. Although caution certainly seems prudent during this current national crisis, Harvard has done well to resist the temptation to take this caution to extremes...
...once specific and vague - an attack that might come in the next few days, but no one had any idea where and how. That, of course, makes it more difficult to persuade Americans that they can safely go about their business. But better to err on the side of caution, even if that slows a return to normalcy. And he took great care to warn Americans against turning their anxiety into hostility towards Americans of other faiths and cultures, insisting that America's diversity was a weapon in the battle against terrorism...
...stability of the government in Manila, and their kidnapping and banditry makes them unpopular even in the mostly Muslim southern islands. Still, the fact that the government of President Gloria Arroyo moved quickly to deny that the U.S. would play any direct military role in the Philippines underlined her caution over being too closely identified with...
...added that “although some people have been concerned about the events last week at BU and there is some feeling that there’s a need for caution, the University has been very good to us, made sure to keep an eye on our events and on security for our events...