Word: cautions
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...Soviet Union. The combination may not make for the most stable relationship, but the two complement each other neatly in experience and temperament. Gorbachev is the cautious infighter who thinks out every move in advance; Yeltsin is the street brawler who goes with his heart and throws caution to the winds. Gorbachev is the sophisticated world traveler who shows presence of mind in the White House or the Vatican; Yeltsin is the blunt- spoken man of the people, comfortable mixing with workers on a shop floor. The fact that the power balance has shifted in Yeltsin's favor and made...
...potent chemical compounds that may block the body's synthesis of carcinogens or decrease cholesterol levels in the blood. "We're finally catching up with what vegetarians and health-food nuts believed all along," says Jon Michnovicz, medical director of New York City's Institute for Hormone Research. Researchers caution that the effects of all the chemicals in the ordinary wonder foods are not known. Binging on them is definitely not recommended...
...their doctor's hands, even if the physician says, "Don't worry about it." They also have a right to ask exactly how each piece of equipment has been sterilized. As the AIDS epidemic enters its second decade, professionals and private citizens alike should choose a path of reasoned caution, rather than dismissive bravado or irrational hysteria...
...taken pains to underscore the respectability of his operation. To avoid obvious conflicts of interest, he does not allow his doctors to see the patients they talk to (all referrals are made to the New York County Medical Society), and his staff cannot prescribe medications over the phone. Such caution is also a hedge against malpractice suits. Although the service is fully insured, some courts have been critical of care delivered by telephone...
...study commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America. Like this year's Presbyterian panel, the Catholic thinkers who took part declared there could be instances in which homosexual, premarital and unwed sex were moral. The group was even unwilling to outlaw adultery flatly, though it urged "extreme caution" for priests who face the issue. The views flew in the face of Vatican pronouncements made a year earlier, and the doctrine committee of the U.S. bishops later issued an unusual attack on the study. But since the mid-1970s, National Opinion Research Center polls have shown that rank-and-file...