Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean's word, of course, must be treated with caution, since his personal stake is high. He is maneuvering for the broadest kind of immunity against prosecution, and may be trying to favorably influence any later criminal trial of his own. Yet it seems unlikely that Dean would enter into a showdown with the President without considerable ammunition. Indeed, his recent record for revealing unpleasant truths is impressive...
...Stanley Birnbaum, acting chief of obstetrics and gynecology at New York Hospital, believes that such laxity is more perilous than the Pill itself. Doctors should examine each patient and question her carefully before prescribing the Pill, he says. They should exercise extreme caution in giving it to anyone with a personal or family history of circulatory problems. Other doctors require Pill users to report regularly for examination to check for high blood pressure. Some even go so far as to insist that women on the Pill stop smoking. Among the stroke victims studied, 73.8% were smokers...
...traditional termination of spontaneous heartbeat and breathing simply is not satisfactory. Emergency techniques have brought back many such clinically "dead." At the other extreme is the guideline of a cautious Dr. Maze, who wrote in 1890 that the first signs of decay should precede burial. For transplant purposes, this caution is a little restrictive...
...prospectus for mortality is so complex, so incredible, that wary speculators are calling for caution before some of man's new powers are applied. But social "wisdom" has hindered scientific inquisitiveness before. Two million Americans dying annually, many willing to pay anything to continue living, it is doubtful that research into methods to postpone death will be curbed...
Frustrated by what they saw as the S.P.D.'s caution and compromise in the wake of its impressive win at the polls last fall, Roth and his Jusos began organizing for last week's congress almost as soon as the election results were announced. There were five major issues: how to redistribute the wealth generated by Germany's economic boom, how to allocate national resources in future planning, how to limit land speculation and increase public construction, whether "radicals" could be excluded from civil service jobs and, finally, whether to press for a withdrawal of U.S. forces...