Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly twenty years, I.F. Stone has lived every journalist's dream. He was his own editor, publisher, and staff, and he printed the truth as he saw it. Unfettered by stockholders, managers, advertisers, or cautious deskmen, he has jousted with official Washington every week for nearly 1,000 weeks, and won far more often than he lost. This week he announced that he is closing down the paper because, at 64 "I can't be a five day bike racer any more...
...bluffing, Mills caved in. "We just didn't have enough votes to carry it," Mills insisted, although nose counts by House Democratic leaders and by AFL-CIO lobbyists indicated that the votes may well have been there if the Democrats had wanted to fight for them. Mills, a cautious man, did not want to take the risk; his critics suggest that he lost his nerve. Party leaders were shocked and angry...
Picky Palates. France's new prosperity is arriving with far less fanfare than either the "economic miracle" of West Germany or Japan's boomu. That is partly because the nation's cautious business establishment has only begun to recognize its own progress and partly because some of the economy's primary institutions have seemed to change little. The largely nationalized French banking industry remains one of the crustiest anywhere, and too many farmers are still dedicated to satisfying the world's pickiest palates rather than to modern agricultural production. Moreover, the standard of living...
...problems are staggering: the struggle will be long and hard; but a cautious optimism seems to be growing. The movement has passed into a new phase and seems to be seriously repudiating the mistakes of the past and looking to the future with hope. Many people at the Davenport conference sensed that NAM may be as significant for the seventies as Port Huron was for the sixties. Perhaps that is being overly optimistic, but the spirit of Port Huron--a break with the past, a renewal and an optimistic willingness to grasp the future--was recaptured in Davenport...
Walter S. Isaacson '74, a member of the Student Committee, said that May "has taken a very active interest in the day to day affairs of the Institute." But he added that May has "a cautious attitude" at a time when the Institute needs to change