Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overburdened, near-bankrupt Social Security system. Otherwise, that tax load could become intolerable. At present there are 30 Social Security beneficiaries for every 100 workers; early in the next century it is expected that there will be 52 recipients for every 100 workers. But Social Security officials caution against expecting more than a "minor" impact on the system from having the old work longer...
More than two years after coming out of the deep 1973-75 recession, the nation's economic recovery has reached middle age-and is feeling all the crotchets of that stage of life. Its youthful bounce is now just a memory, and its progress is marked more by caution than boldness. Its future looks unexcitingly predictable at best, a little worrisome at worst: relatively modest gains in production, a very gradual reduction of high unemployment, continuation of a distressing but not immediately dangerous inflation rate...
...education, copied all over the country by other colleges. In the enthusiasm of the moment, Rosovsky says, the Faculty didn't worry about mechanics, and the program became increasingly less organized as course offerings proliferated. In these more cynical '70s, Rosovsky says, reformers are likely to proceed with greater caution, trying to sidestep the pitfalls before they arise so they won't have to clean up the mess later...
...That caution is fairly obvious at the moment. All that anyone will really say about the working committees at the moment is that they're moving along smoothly, and that their ideas will be presented to the Faculty with only minor modifications. The wheels of the core curriculum may not be grinding as slowly as everyone first suspected, but they are probably grinding just as fine. Certainly they are grinding more silently...
Indira does not seem to be vulnerable to charges of financial wrongdoing; she has a reputation for caution in her personal finances. But real trouble could come from official studies of abuses during the emergency. Asked if he planned to call Mrs. Gandhi as a witness, former Supreme Court Justice J.C. Shah, head of the most important panel, replied: "If I felt it necessary-and I feel that it is necessary-then I will call...