Word: cautioningly
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...most striking things about talking to both Harvard and Roxbury people is the extreme caution with thich they speak of the project. No one wants to blame any of the delays, problems, or missed opportunities on anyone from the other school. One misstep, Harvard fears, and Roxbury faculty will lose all interest in assistance. One disparagement of Harvard efforts, Roxbury fears, and Harvard will quit them...
...caution, even the tension surrounding this delicate alliance suggests something positive about its potential. None of the people involved are completely satisfied with the project, but almost everyone seems to believe something worthwhile, something they do not want to risk upsetting is taking place...
There is good reason for Soffen's -and NASA's-caution; the implications of discovering any form of life on Mars are so staggering that no scientist can afford to be wrong. But the ambiguities surrounding the Viking biology tests may soon be resolved. Now that Mars has re-emerged from behind the sun-which blocked transmissions between Viking and the earth for more than a month late last year-scientists have "reawakened" the sleeping laboratories and instructed them to run a new round of experiments...
...state official, who asked not to be named, said he was given the impression that any open criticism of federal policy might result in less vaccine being shipped to his state. And when English and French authorities questioned America's panicky reaction, the U.S. vaccine establishment called their caution a case of sour grapes, claiming that if England has a vaccine-producing technology as advanced as America's it would have followed our lead--an ironic boast, given the production errors and delays that plagued the American program...
...Hayes said the extra precaution was incorporated because board members felt some experiments now done at p-4 might be downgraded to p-3 labs. Hayes said he felt this move would "put one more caution on the experiment, at not much trouble to the researcher...