Word: cautioningly
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Much of the caution stems from a recognition that something momentous happened last year: after a long period of almost splendid isolation, the U.S. economy joined the rest of the world. As a result, the nation had to cope with events over which it had only partial control...
Kissinger still takes time to trade quips with the press on his tours. The smiles and the charm are there, but there is a new caution, an extra moment of thought before he delivers his carefully phrased answers. There is less time for sleep (five hours a night) and more demands for him to fulfill the protocol role of office. The playboy of the West Wing has become the serious statesman...
Somare's caution was understandable Papua New Guinea has a fair claim to being the world's most backward nation. Its 2,600,000 people, spread over an area somewhat larger than California, are divided into 702 tribes and speak perhaps as many languages. In the past year there were at least 20 known battles between tribes fighting with spears, clubs, bows and arrows in disputes over land, pigs and women, in approximately that order. A lingering appetite for cannibalism is suspected in the remote interior where Stone Age conditions prevail Witch doctors still thrive and sorcery...
...popular in a post-Watergate electorate. He is staid, cautious, has a reputation for scrupulous honesty, and is too old to be ambitious. Beame is the classic civil servant, the man who once taught accounting in one of New York's high schools. He is an official of overarching caution, awed by risk, frightened by intuition...
This is, in large measure, a self-perpetuating philosophy. Conservative, cautious politicians are created by their perception of an electorate that will buy security, peace and quiet every time. Men like Beame actively spread the doctrine of caution among voters, creating more of their species in the process. For this reason, it is a philosophy which win elections on the national as well as local level. But for cities like New York, it may make the subways cleaner for a time, but it is, in the long run, a doctrine of slow strangulation...