Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dough." The U.S. public seemed more worried about the economy than during the 1953-54 recession. Consumers are deeper in than they were in 1954, more troubled about the cold war, less confident about the Eisenhower Administration, so they find signs of sag more worrisome. The mood of grey caution took some of the cheer away from what a few months ago would have seemed very good news: Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell declared that "the persistent rise [in consumer prices] has ended," and the Bureau of Labor Statistics followed up by announcing that its Consumer Price Index, after...
...most prosperous of Russia's satellites. Prague has more cars on its streets than any other satellite capital. Its shop windows are aglitter with goods, its services and amenities rival a city of the West. Yet it is a grey city, devoid of progress and hope. "Caution" is the national byword...
Think of the Whole. In all the viewing-with-alarm, there were words of caution. Money alone, said President Henry Heald of the Ford Foundation, will solve nothing, nor can the Federal Government "decree the study of science." In Washington, the National Student Association warned that if the nation fails to improve not only the scientific but all aspects of education, the U.S. educational system might be "reduced to a satellite of the Russian system, spinning in an orbit dictated by Russian scientists...
...expense of such caution was added the extra costs of a deliberate slowdown on construction to recheck everything in the process. For example, the 58-ton reactor core was lowered into place as slowly as three-thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock...
Second, the cloak of security is all too often used to hide mistakes and inefficiency instead of genuinely confidential material. No one has ever gotten into trouble for over-classifying material, so the bureaucrats responsible naturally tend to err on the side of caution...