Word: cautioningly
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...lowest level since September 1980. Other borrowing costs are also receding. The interest on Government-insured home mortgages slid to 14% last week, from a high of 18% in September 1981. Falling rates should spur consumer purchases of big-ticket items and boost business investments. But many economists caution, that interest levels are unlikely to fall much further. The cost of borrowing might even increase slightly if business starts picking up later in the year...
...conservation vs. development debate, the impact of today's policies will not be fully apparent for decades. It is that very uncertainty that has led Interior policymakers to err on the side of preservation and caution. Because Watt's radical course carries with it the risk of irrevocability-lands cannot be unsold, offshore oil wells undrilled nor sullied wilderness made virginal again-his department is no longer a quaint political backwater. For better or worse, Watt's Interior stewardship may be the century's most significant. Among his controversial moves...
...legal fees involved can be destructive. The Tavoulareases so far have spent $2 million on lawyers to fight the case, and the Post's defense has cost $1 million. Bills on such a scale, plus the possibility of losing, may inspire not merely professional care but unprofessional caution. Said New York Attorney Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment specialist, after last week's verdict: "We could move to a new level of low-risk journalism...
From the beginning, the Soviets have moved with extreme caution in Iran. They ordered the local Tudeh (Communist) Party to infiltrate organizations of clerical power but to avoid any actions that could arouse official suspicion. Meanwhile, Moscow provided Iran with increasing amounts of military and economic aid, though always by proxy. Indeed, to hedge their bets, the Soviets continued giving token support to Iraq, with which they have had a friendship treaty since 1960 and whose army they have largely supplied...
...cultural identity of a firm can range from supercharged overdrive to bureaucratic caution. At Tandem Computers Inc., a rapidly growing high-tech firm south of San Francisco, the work week ritualistically climaxes in Friday-afternoon company-sponsored beer busts in the company cafeteria. By contrast, Dallas-based Mary Kay Cosmetics seeks more of a frills-and-lace image. Each year, at lavish seminars, the top producers among the firm's virtually all-female sales force are awarded pink Cadillacs, diamonds and mink coats...