Word: cautions
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With her political and personal security threatened from beginning to end, Elizabeth needed all her courage, cunning and caution to reign. She took the throne of a poor, isolated and deeply humiliated country. As a Queen, she faced special problems of marriage and succession, religious division, domestic discontent and foreign threats. Her Church of England restored the country firmly to Protestantism, yet she allowed Catholics freedom of worship, easing the bitter religious strife of Mary's reign...
...Harvey as his lovely personal assistant, Mary Magdalene, and Thomas Jay Ryan as Satan. Donovan hits New York City on New Year's Eve 1999 for a meeting with his father's lawyers (the felicitously named Armageddon, Armageddon, Armageddon & Greene) in preparation for the apocalypse. Great fun, with one caution: The whole thing was shot with a very shaky digital video camera - not the sort of thing to view with a hangover...
...feeling strapped for cash this holiday season, here's a word of caution about so-called payday loans from high-interest lenders: Don't even think about it. These single-payment loans, which are legal in some 30 states, can be more than you bargain for and carry an interest charge that amounts to 500% on an annualized basis. "This is no different than taking a cash advance on your credit card," says Jean A. Fox of the Consumer Federation of America. "It's just more expensive." Anyone in a cash crunch would do better to seek a credit counselor...
...lying." The next morning, in an interview with TIME, Gore was lamenting that Bradley had launched an attack that was "quite astonishing and very negative and very personal." But, he sighed, "I will never engage in that kind of tactic." By then, Bradley's heart was fibrillating, though experts caution that there's no evidence the condition is caused by the sight of outrageous political posturing. Furious that his campaign had descended to Gore's level, Bradley had Berman issue an apology to Gore. That must have been more uncomfortable than the fibrillation...
...preservation of reliable accounts of the career, teaching, death and resurrection of one extraordinary man. Many modern scholars, however, have tended to see them as propaganda, as campaign biographies--documents that contain fragments of actual history, but history so shaped and transformed by faith as to require caution in the reader who seeks firm fact...