Word: cautioned
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Critics of the wind energy fee are quick to caution against a slippery slope. This is the second straight year a referendum on optional termbill charges has passed through the student body and come under the discretionary eye of the Faculty Council—the first being last year’s increase in the student activities fee. It is easy to see how some might fear an eventual laundry list of termbill items with Harvard students (and their parents) doling out funding to save the pandas, free Tibet or any of a number of other causes, charitable or otherwise...
...action program to boost Muslim numbers in certain professions. Allegations of abduction, torture and other abuses by elements of Thai security forces have fueled Muslim resentment. Some analysts believe that unidentified Islamic separatists, inspired by the global jihad, are exploiting this anger to launch attacks against the state. Others caution that the south has long been a violent place, with the police, military, gangsters and politicians fighting turf wars with one another over the black-market trade in gasoline, guns, narcotics and other contraband...
...that you don’t), no matter which side you latched on to you’d be convinced the creative apocalypse was near. Academic legal scholars such as the fellows at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society are quick to caution that with extensions of the length of copyright and with legislative grants of additional powers that undermine the already weak fair use doctrine, the ability to use the existing pool of creative work to new ends—to publish documentaries that include stock footage and write songs that include...
...ahead in Ohio by 130,000 votes. But about the same number of provisional ballots--given to voters whose eligibility had been challenged--remained unopened. In elections gone by, that gap would still have been enough to put the state in Bush's column, but most networks exercised uncharacteristic caution...
...Caution is the bottom line,” he said...