Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...split between the White House and the State Department on how to respond to the rapidly changing situation. White House advisers were enthusiastic, recognizing that Sadat had cracked through a psychological barrier to Geneva. The diplomatic professionals at Foggy Bottom, reflecting Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's innate caution, feared that Sadat's moves might alienate not only the Syrians but the Saudis as well. State was also concerned about a negative reaction from Moscow. As soon as it became clear that neither the other Arabs nor the Soviets were going to Cairo, Carter announced that...
Psephologists will be sorting out the particulars for months to come, but one trend was clear in last week's off-year election returns: a solid vote for sanity. The people shunned way-out ideas and candidates, preferred plainspokenness to blarney, supported caution over experiment, and trusted what they could see for themselves, instead of what traditional politics and machine politicians told them. The many referendums on the ballots reflected a growing public demand for more efficient and less meddlesome government. The political center not only held; it grew all the more crowded...
...arms control efforts is one of verification. Hidden underground in unmarked tunnels, MX missiles could not be easily identified or counted by Soviet satellites. Underlying any serious attempt to limit strategic capabilities must be the ability to have independent verification of missile levels. The U.S. should exercise considerable caution when confronting not only the possibility of escalating the arms race, but of foreclosing any future attempts at negotiated reductions...
Instead of displaying caution amid the obvious backlash against its past influence, the maritime industry engaged in some of its most blatant lobbying efforts. Just six weeks before the House committee approved the bill in August, a fund-raising cocktail party for Chairman Murphy in Washington garnered $9,950 from maritime sources for his 1978 campaign. "That doesn't mean I'm bought," snapped Murphy angrily after Common Cause broke the news. But the fact that Congressmen had to deny they were selling votes showed how counterproductive the lobbying effort had become...
Uncertainty about the Carter Administration among business leaders is particularly dangerous because it gives them one more reason for holding back on the expansion programs that are necessary to keep production I growing and bring down unemployment. And businessmen already have plenty of cause for such caution. The deep recession of 1973-75 shook their faith that the economy would keep rising, with only minor setbacks; the double-digit inflation of 1974 made them doubt that they could realistically estimate future costs; the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the fears of energy shortages that followed caused them to wonder...