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...programs aimed at alleviating national frustrations-could go too far, Moynihan warns. At the moment, that leaves us with only a vague sense of what we should do, of what direction social policy should take. That implies a lessening of faith in government intervention and suggests a need for caution before engineering new interventions in our lives...
...with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...
...reasons underlying his caution then were based on sound reasoning. Last year, when Princeton clobbered the Crimson by a 7-2 margin, Bill Kaplan played number two for Harvard and lost. This year he won in the first position...
...increased caution comes following a Series of bomb and fire threats throughout the Boston area...
...forefront of expansion is exactly where Wriston intends to keep Citibank. Today, while other bankers talk of retrenchment and caution, Wriston clings to his goal of a 15% profit growth each year (an aim that Citibank did not quite achieve in 1975). Many bankers believe that such a target is more appropriate for a growth company like IBM or Xerox than for a bank, which has the primary responsibility of safeguarding depositors' money. Wriston concedes that rapid expansion may increase bad-loan write-offs, but makes two arguments for doing it nonetheless. Says he: "If we didn...