Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
...which reached 5% last year, would slow to a rate of 3% or less by the end of this year. But many other economists and corporate policymakers predict an appreciably higher-or lower-rate of growth. When opinions divide and uncertainty becomes widespread, decision makers begin to act with caution, holding back buying plans. That tends to retard economic growth and inflation...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare have brought out steadily stronger reports, including evidence that the average heavy smoker dies eight years sooner than the nonsmoker. HEW began distributing pamphlets to schools, warning of the dangers of smoking. Congress in 1965 ordered that cigarette packs must carry the warning "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health." Twenty months ago, the Federal Communications Commission ordered that the television and radio networks must donate "significant" time to the American Cancer Society and other organizations to rebut cigarette commercials...
According to Washington Lawyer Michael Tigar, the editor of the Selective Service Law Reporter, Judge Harvey's decision extends Clark's opinion "very significantly." Perhaps trying to caution those who may seek reclassification as a result of it, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey pointedly observed at week's end that "the area of religion is a very complicated...
...Administration "by giving them a piece of the action." His first appointments, besides assuring the academic community that even Nixon appreciated it, suggested that Nixon the President-elect viewed problems more reasonably than Nixon the Republican nominee had. Henry Kissinger as National Security Assistant seemed to imply caution on the arms race; Lee DuBridge as Science Assistant seemed to indicate concern for basic research; Paul McCracken as head of CEA seemed to be a shift from medieval fiscal policy to full employment economics; and of course Daniel Patrick Moynihan as the new Urban assistant seemed to promise help...