Word: cautions
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...seemed too good to be true: by all accepted standards, the longstanding threat of inflation appeared to be whipped. Success in a series of key battles, the economists agreed, is winning the war against price upcreep. Ahead for the U.S.. said these prophets with only a pinch of caution, is a new era of steady growth and price stability...
Excluded Placebo. Caution personified, Dr. Baronofsky would make no precise claims for benefit to these patients because none has been observed for longer than a year. It is important, he noted, to rule out the "placebo effect"-many heart patients feel better if they only think that something has been done. Dr. Baronofsky has devised a method, which he would not disclose, to get around this difficulty. He is also comparing irradiated patients with others who have had heart surgery...
...analyst thought the market might drift down another 15 or 20 points before finding the base for its next rise simply because, said Sam Stedman, partner in Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., many stocks at their recent highs were overpriced in terms of immediate earnings. To Stedman, the caution was a good sign. "I don't like it when everyone thinks that all the market...
...grim wisecracks, masking solitude and self-pity, kept pouring with the bourbon. The best thing about his funeral, said Carney, would be the hernia his best friend would get carrying the casket. He called the friend's wife, told her to caution her husband not to say "funeralwise" at the service. Falling to pieces, he asked the operator to try Dr. Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa to see if he would make a house call. Opening a phial of sleeping pills, he named each one as he swallowed it: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel, Gretel, the Three Bears...
...couldn't find animosity in his heart during the reading period, and abandoning all caution, he struck out for the periodical room. He always tried to avoid looking at people, but he couldn't help noticing, with the satisfaction of a Neapolitan among the Americans in Naples, the way the strangers searched clumsily in the shelves and catalogues...