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Word: cautions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yellow doesn't mean cowardice just because it warns, "Look before you leap." Traffic experts use that color for caution signs because yellow can be seen at a greater distance than any other color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1981 | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Menu. Used with careful caution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haigledygook and Secretaryspeak | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...Careful caution. A repetitious redundancy but preferable to careless caution. Similar to his "longstanding in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haigledygook and Secretaryspeak | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes, Thailand will be less likely to go the way of Cambodia, Niger the way of Chad, or Oman the way of South Yemen. Clearly stated declarations of U.S. commitments and vital interests would inject some uncertainty-and possibly some additional caution-into Soviet calculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...Such caution is not necessarily cynical. It is common to anyone who keeps an eye on the realities of American government, as contrasted with the sentimental and doctrinaire preachings about it. One reality of political America is the country's capacity and willingness to do whatever is deemed practically or morally essential-while inventing the justifying doctrine as needed. The nation, operating under one Constitution, has permitted racial segregation in one era but outlawed it in another, tolerated corporate trusts in one season but tabooed them in later let the states oversee political parties at one time and taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: States' Rights and Other Myths | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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