Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More cordial relations might provide both countries with leverage against Soviet power. Just as the specter of U.S.-Soviet collusion worries the Chinese, closer relations between Washington and Peking just might persuade the Soviets to pursue a more cautious policy...
...skin and been expelled from the lungs; these tiny pollutants may well be absorbed by the porous glass of laboratory beakers and flasks. Thus polywater-which is made by letting steam condense inside hair-thin glass tubes-could pick up impurities even in the hands of the most cautious chemist. In fact, investigators who have tried to make polywater in polyethylene plastic tubes have invariably failed, Davis notes, because polyethylene is nonporous and cannot trap particles...
...burden upon the exercise of First Amendment Rights, argues civil liberties lawyer Frank Askin ( Stanford Law Review, Jan., 1970), that can be expected to deter their exercise constitutes an infringement of those rights. The more cautious and discreet may be discouraged from engaging in protest activities by government surveillance and the maintenance of dossiers on those who engage in active protest against government institutions and policies...
...been run by the New Left. Brzezinski calls it the technetronic revolution. In Between Two Ages he discusses the repercussions of rapid change from an industrial era-with its emphasis on sheer productivity-to a period that stresses services, automation and cybernetics. Being that rarity among futurists, a cautious man, Brzezinski is not sure if utopia or bedlam will result. Meanwhile, between two ages is a time of uncertainty and some guarded hope...
...failed lovers enter first in a cautious story called "The Happiness of Others." Then Price has another try in a long rumination called "Waiting at Dachau." The story's psychologizing is murky, but it is less neat, less cautious; it will hold more emotion. Nevertheless, after a series of elegies for his parents and a dead friend that seem a bit too private for publication, Price returns to the parting of the lovers in a moody, troubled story, "Good and Bad Dreams," that is the best in the book. This time the lovers are husband and wife...