Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to comment on another person's beliefs, even when the issues at hand are as clear as day. Here they are both unclear and very very big, so a word of caution is due before I start playing fast and loose. It would be naive to argue that the "simple faith" of writer Randy Karger is impossible, when in this day and age of scientific discovery, belief is so nearly impossible as a matter of course. It is not his personal faith I attack, nor the "long and difficult" faith of his colleague Brad Whitman, but their public pronouncements...
...alarm plain. He wrote to Lake that Chung's mission was "very troubling" because it interfered in a "diplomatically difficult and high-stakes issue." He added, "All we can do is hope the Chinese recognize Chung's credentials are thin and that his message should be treated with caution." Suettinger feared that Chung could "do damage" and recommended that "we be very careful about the kinds of favors he is granted...
...President Gore about attending a fund-raising lunch at a Buddhist temple near Los Angeles. Gore's attendance, he said, would appear to give U.S. policy a pro-Taiwan, anti-China tilt at a time of great tension between the two. "My reaction would be one of great, great caution." The State Department expressed similar concerns. The result? Gore went, but there were no Taiwanese flags flying to make for uncomfortable photo ops, and no Taiwanese politicians playing a visible role. The lunch netted the D.N.C. $140,000 and unlimited grief ever since because of multiple fund-raising irregularities...
There's always a risk when little companies get big dreams. Right now the entire indie industry needs caution. The current boom could be only a bump. Aging moviegoers could go back to TV. Or the next film by English Patient director Anthony Minghella could be more like his previous, invisible effort, Mr. Wonderful. Or the major studios could emerge from their stupor and figure out how to make the kinds of films from which the indies have profited...
...inter-club council (graduate board) and through discipline of individual students, to address the problems, with mixed results. Because the problems appear to persist, we have decided to issue occasional reports identifying some of the more serious allegations brought to our attention. We do so primarily as a caution to students who may be considering joining or visiting a club. We also hope that these reports may spur the clubs in question to act more responsibly...