Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alvin Weinberg, a nuclear power advocate and coauthor of a new book, Economic and Environmental Implications of a U.S. Nuclear Moratorium, believes the alternatives to atomic power "are so crummy that we probably should in a cautious way continue this nuclear enterprise." Other experts will certainly disagree. Perhaps the most unarguable assessment is that of Pennsylvania Republican Senator Richard Schweiker: "The nuclear industry is on trial as it never has been before...
...oarswomen anticipate next week's New Jersey showdown with cautious optimism. Last year, in conditions similar to this weekend's headwinds, the Crimson stayed even with the Tigers for 1000 meters before succumbing, as Strong said, to Princeton's superior technique...
...studios the air was thick with concentration. Oboist Ralph Gomberg counseled one jittery student: "You don't hear the notes if you play it too fast." Flutist Senwick Smith used one phrase in a piece called The Flute of Pan to try to loose some spontaneity in his cautious players. "Do you know who Pan is?" he asked. They did not; he explained...
Sisco proudly proclaimed himself to be, like Helms, a member of the "old school" of diplomacy, but he was nonetheless cautious about using gunboats. Closely questioned, he said he would send in the Marines to, say, Saudi Arabia in response to a plea from the government to counter a threat that was at least partly external. Said he: "I would have absolutely no hesitancy whatsoever in responding positively to such a Saudi Arabian request, given all the caveats and conditions...
...lines are already going on with major U.S. oil companies, which want to explore offshore. China already has credit lines totaling $8 billion from the British and French, and will need perhaps as much as a total of $40 billion over the next few years. But Peking is understandably cautious. Says Blumenthal: "They are determined not to overextend themselves...