Word: cautioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...befall him, he failed to marry the woman he loved (lest she share his fate), or to do much of anything, only to realize too late that the great misfortune fate had in store for him was to throw away his life and opportunities because of his excessive caution and fear of the future...
...currently have little protection from powerful locals who use practices frowned upon in the West - such as sales of stock to insiders at below-market prices and reverse stock splits - to squeeze out small shareholders. "One shouldn't get caught up in the emotion of a political fairy tale," cautions William F. Browder, who runs Moscow-based investment firm Hermitage Capital Management and says Ukraine is about five years behind Russia in terms of investor-protection legislation. "There are serious legal and financial issues that need to be resolved before Ukraine becomes an attractive place for foreign investors. Anyone...
...University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, will report soon with ideas on reforming that instrument of justice that enrages separated parents, mostly fathers, as nothing else does: the wage-garnishing Child Support Scheme. On the eve of the changes there's cause for both optimism and hardheaded caution. "I'm not convinced I'll put in place the perfect system," says Ruddock. "I don't feel I'm God. But I do think we can do a hell of a lot better than we have done." New Zealand men's groups - which insist their country's family law system...
...world financial markets hinge so dramatically on the Treasury Secretary’s words that extreme caution is necessary whenever the public or the press is within earshot, according to Murray. One wrong word could send the dollar into a tailspin or destroy a foreign economy. Paul O’Neill, for example, Summers’ successor at the Treasury, single-handedly caused the collapse of the Brazilian real when he said the country needed to guarantee that aid money “doesn’t just go out of the country to Swiss bank accounts...
...environment simply called for greater caution and more attention to political correctness, and the diplomacy he learned from Rubin, while effective at the Treasury, was still insufficient for Harvard...