Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course until one day recently when Angelo, accompanying Mrs. Nixon's party, found herself locked in a hotel room in Yellowstone Park. With no phone, no response to her shouts and the press bus about to leave, she threw caution - and herself - to the winds: "Feeling like the prisoner of Zenda, I opened the window, forced the screen and jumped out. The room, happily, was on the first floor...
...Leader Meade Esposito promised to "support the Democratic ticket to the bitter end." Addressing labor leaders in Tacoma, Wash., McGovern called the area the "economic sore thumb" of the Nixon Administration. He promised a job for everyone, "though I can't spell this out line by line." The caution was advisable, since on his last visit to Washington he had pledged 25,000 new jobs if Boeing concentrated on building a quieter aircraft engine. That was possible, he now admitted, only if all the engines in all Boeing aircraft were converted-an unlikely prospect...
...underscored his optimism with a word of caution. "It takes a long time for teaching fellow appointments to work their way through the University bureaucracy," he explained. "People waiting for their money may become fearful and irate. We are doing all we can to expedite this process...
Impossible Task. German planning, as it turned out, was inadequate -and German caution led to disaster. The five sharpshooters at the airport were expected to stop eight men as rapidly as possible under bad lighting conditions-an impossible task. The small German force of police held back for more than an hour after the first shots were fired. Some of the 500 German soldiers on hand, who were under control of Interior Minister Bruno Merk of the Bavarian government, were being used to control crowds on the perimeter of the airfield. They would have been more usefully employed in assaulting...
...authors even have a word of caution about the professional-looking service managers who greet drivers at the entrance to the service department of auto dealerships: they are often paid by commission and thus have powerful incentive to recommend unneeded repairs. If their persuasive salesmanship fails, they sometimes tack on unauthorized replacement orders. Many garages also make use of "flat-rate manuals" that list labor charges based on highly inflated estimates of the time it takes to do each job. If the repairs are finished in half the stipulated time, the fee remains the same-and the garage may hold...