Word: cautioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Extreme caution while waiting for parliament to convene in two weeks' time. This may the most dangerous period the reform movement has experienced yet. The leadership has become acutely aware of the need to avoid giving the conservatives the slightest excuse for any sort of crackdown, because they're aware that the shutdown of a newspaper, for example, could provoke a student demonstration, and that in turn could spark a fierce crackdown that might even create a security pretext for the conservatives to delay the seating of the new parliament...
Tsunamis - very rare in the Atlantic, but a regular threat to Pacific shores - are caused by submarine earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity. Part of the reason for the scientists' caution over the Virginia discovery is that they don't know if the cracks are longtime formations that have gone unnoticed or a more recent phenomenon. They do know, however, that they form part of a wide scar caused by a landslide that occurred 16,000 to 18,000 years ago. Such a slide could be triggered by undersea seismic activity or the decomposition of gas hydrate deposits, a very rare...
...Newcomers to the Winthrop Spring Swing would do well to exercise caution. Hardened swinging veterans are liable to fling their partners like shotputs to all corners of the floor. Watch that last drop step—it could save your life...
...bathroom with just his dick in his hands,” says Sonny Corleone. His brother Michael, the youngest of the Corleone children, decides to involve himself in the “family business” and prepares for a dangerous meeting, a step that invokes both pride and caution in his older brothers. Several of the Corleones have pressured Michael to join their mafioso life. Anticipating a bloodbath, Michael is ambivalent about his choice...
Tales like that have begun to sway some policymakers. Last week the office of California Governor Gray Davis issued a report urging schools to proceed with caution on Mosaic, and other such programs. The U.S. Education Department is backing away from the checklist of warning signs it sent to every school in the nation in 1998. In a mass mailing this week, the department declares that relying on such lists can "harm children and waste resources." Instead, it counsels teachers and parents to use the much lower-tech and more labor-intensive approach of keeping their eyes and ears alert...