Word: cautioningly
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Nineteen-eighty five saw Harvard take its first carefully planned steps towards computerization, but the steps were anything but bold. With characteristic caution, the University, despite dipping its feet into the waters, has yet to take the big plunge. If anything, 1985 is the year of the rational, the skeptical and the realistic in the computer world...
...loosening of the suffocating central controls on what and how much is produced and at what prices. In the interview, he declined even to repeat the sharp criticism of past failures in economic planning that he has voiced inside the Soviet Union. That may merely reflect well-advised caution by a leader who has seen past efforts at reform, notably Andropov's, sabotaged by the bureaucracy. For all his decisiveness, Gorbachev is the head of what really is a collective leadership, not a Stalinist dictatorship. His reluctance to take on the planners may also reflect a concern that economic decentralization...
...contact as would occur among schoolchildren appears to pose no risk . . . (Most of) these children should be allowed to attend school and after-school day-care . . . in an unrestricted setting." Indeed, there are no known instances of a child with AIDS infecting his parents or siblings. The report did caution that preschool-age children and those who lack bodily function control or who have open sores should be treated with care in order to "minimize exposure of other children to blood or body fluids...
...White House, exercising extreme caution, made no official statement about the hostage release until National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane verified through official sources that the convoy had reached the Syrian border. Then, at 2:05 p.m., White House Spokesman Larry Speakes made a brief statement, including the President's response. "That's very welcome news," said Ronald Reagan. Using pilots' slang for airborne, he added, "Let me know when they are wheels...
...feature common to both magazines, however, was their extreme caution in handling their respective scoops. Stung, perhaps, by the derision it drew after it fell for a hoax in publishing the so-called Hitler Diaries two years ago, Stern downplayed its pictures of the old man in Brazil. On its cover the magazine ran its standard topless beauty, and it held its press run to the usual 1.6 million copies...