Word: cautionings
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...bright sounds of spring this year, few are more reassuring to businessmen and election-minded politicians than the persistent jangle of the nation's cash registers. From Maine to Southern California, Americans seem to have shucked their recession-bred caution and set off on a buying binge. The spending spree is swelling sales of almost everything from cars and clothing to houses and appliances, and it has become the biggest single booster behind the rapidly recovering U.S. economy...
...page interim opinion issued last February, Professor Abraham Sofaer of Columbia Law School found GE "overwhelmingly" responsible for the PCB pollution of the Hudson and ordered it to take steps to reduce its discharges of the chemical. Sofaer also found that the state had "exercised insufficient caution and concern" in controlling PCB pollution of the river...
...leadership of the party and occupancy of No. 10 Downing Street that had begun three weeks before when Harold Wilson resigned. After 13 years of tutelage by Wilson, master of the cautious choice, most of the voting Labor M.P.s had opted for a few more years of pragmatic caution under Callaghan rather than the financial strains for battered Britain of a more pronounced leftward turn under Foot...
...computer trouble since the New Hampshire race, and was using a manual analysis of results. Man did no better than machine, though NBC is convinced it would have seen the closeness of the race had its computer been operational. CBS was saved by nothing more complicated than proper caution and a set of sample precincts that more accurately weighed the rural vote...
Franken and Davis did discover what people wanted. Their success came when they were still so young--Franken is 24, Davis 23--that comedians constantly caution them "not to burn out." Franken, sitting in his comfortable chair, was not disturbed. His only worry, he said, was when he would get a vacation from his writing job, not to relax, but to perform stand-up comedy...