Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buyers from a score of countries were on hand in Paris to look over the fashion parade, and their reaction was a mix of ecstasy and caution. "It was the best couture season in ten years," said Ohrbach's Sydney Gittler. "The chemise will sweep America." Some, however, took a less upbeat approach. Gloomed Spoilsport Clovis Ruffin of Ruffinwear...
...Frankenstein revamped, of course, but the signals seem to have gone wrong somewhere. Clearly, Hodges intended a caution against science that can mistake mind warping for mind mending. Despite all the patent disapproval, though, the operation still seems feasible, the only alternative to Benson's previous condition. The unresolved conflict lends the film a rather archaic tone, like those old horror movies that ended in the smoldering ashes of some laboratory, where a dim but wise policeman would shake his head and say, "Man wasn't ready for such knowledge...
...House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
With a judicious mixture of courage and caution, Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger's Department of Health, Education, and Welfare last week stepped into the middle of the battle against sex discrimination. It published a set of proposals designed to exorcise the substance if not the spirit of sexism from almost every educational institution...
Even where there is no will, there is a way. There is a difference, of course, between chronic procrastination and purposeful postponement, particularly in the higher echelons of business. Corporate dynamics encourage the caution that breeds delay, says Richard Manderbach, Bank of America group vice president. He notes that speedy action can be embarrassing or extremely costly. The data explosion fortifies those seeking excuses for inaction-another report to be read, another authority to be consulted. "There is always," says Manderbach, "a delicate edge between having enough information and too much...