Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarter earnings of $530 million. Ford's gains have been steadier, but it still managed to double analysts' predictions with net earnings of $572 million. Even General Motors turned a financial corner with quarterly profits of $513 million. Still, all three companies tempered their reports with downbeat expressions of caution. Ford's chairman, Harold A. Poling, complained of "weak economies, intense competition and excess industry capacity...
Marshall said yesterday that although it is not yet completed, there has been significant progress in the investigation. Marshall, who previously said she would move with "deliberate caution" to probe the guards' charges, said she had not decided on how here findings may be revealed...
...also announced that he was considering the need for military intervention in the war-torn Balkans with extreme caution, calling the situation there "the most difficult foreign policy problem this country faces...
...another irony, the growing mood of caution comes at a time when many households have fresh cash on hand. Americans pocketed $12 billion last year just by renegotiating their mortgages. "The nation has some money to burn for a change," says Gail Fosler, chief economist for the Conference Board, a business research group. "But no one wants to light the first match. It's not a recovery. It's only an improvement...
...rise sprawl of faded blue pastel walls and barred windows in the mostly black district of Watts. John Beatty, a big, bearded African American, is coordinator of an alternative school that tries to rescue dropouts. Two weeks ago he led eight teenage boys in a discussion to caution them about events that might grow out of the King and Denny cases. All the boys agreed on the likely outcome: trouble. And if violence were to break out again, they told him, they fully intended to go looting...