Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Powell's devotion to the military is not something to demean. Nothing is more admirable than a leader who cares about the welfare of his troops, and who zealously guards the reputation of his institution. Powell's caution is fine if it consists mainly of rigorous examination of deployments before they begin. (This realism was apparently lacking when the Bush administration committed troops to Somalia without a serious plan to disarm the warlords...
...White House lawn captures the drama of the moment more vividly than these words. But the Arafat-Rabin letters will echo loudly through history precisely because of their practical quality. War cries tend to strident emotionalism, while bitter enemies feeling their way toward reconciliation speak wisely in tones of caution. In this case the very flatness of the words was reassuring; Arafat and Rabin had left themselves no room for ambiguity, evasion or disavowal. The veteran antagonists had actually put on paper the idea that generations of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, themselves included, had vowed never to entertain: no longer...
Meyer was travelling yesterday and could not bereached for comment. But his caution was echoed byindustry experts...
...team should have been more careful, in any case, but the knowledge that the hopes of so many rested on their findings should have prompted more caution. Mudge might have sought more consultation with other physicians, rather than amobbed press conference before TV cameras. Certainly, the media is not blameless...
...Sources caution that these forecasts resulted from a draft of the health- reform plan that is still being refined, and was tested on an econometric model that included "faulty assumptions" about the ways in which employers, workers and health-care providers are likely to respond to health-care reform. Still, these estimates -- and others by independent economists who predict job losses in the 200,000-to-600,000 range -- galvanized Clinton's health-reform advisers last week into a crash program to refine both their computer models and the health-care plan in order to minimize their forecast of unemployment...