Word: cautioningly
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...golf. And who could get excited enough to shout obscenities on a golf course? Stock car racers don't have to use turn signals, and they're allowed to pass on the left as well as the right. Hockey players are permitted to check opponents without first issuing a caution. In short, the other games men play have rules, but they do not have an ethic of etiquette...
...Dave the Hammer Schultz has received a public caution. Mr. Dave the Hammer Schultz will resume play...
Efforts to remedy these Western deficits have appeared indecisive: the on-again-off-again neutron bomb, the debate over the stationing of middle-range missiles in Western Europe. Some Washington officials accuse the Europeans of timidity, but Europeans are more inclined to see their caution as a prudent response to the changing balance of power. Says France's Aron: "When Jimmy Carter says the U.S. is the world's greatest military power, nobody believes him because it is not true." West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has told aides, "If the Americans want to be convincing, they...
Whatever its other accomplishments, the Brezhnev leadership has done nothing to ameliorate the problems of excessive centralization in economic planning, of the stagnation and proliferation of bureaucracy and of political patronage that rewards sycophancy and caution while discouraging innovation. These facts of Soviet life, which have stifled dynamism for decades, are now more deeply embedded in the system than ever. Inefficiency and inflexibility have been institutionalized, not just in the economy but in the political system itself...
Unlike the capitalist economies of the West, which reward successful risk taking, the Soviet system rewards caution and conformity. Any plant manager who might be interested in experimenting with new ways of doing things runs the risk of failing to meet his assigned production or delivery quota, as traumatic a worry to a Soviet manager as the fear of red ink is to an American corporate executive. Observes Haverford College Sovietologist Holland Hunter: "Everyone finds the traditional way of doing things-no innovation-the most congenial. The supreme challenge is not to rock the boat. New styling or technology would...