Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world. Beyond the continual coups, the constant bickering and the incessant intrigues were two related problems: the civil war in Jordan between Palestinian guerrillas and King Hussein's Bedouin-backed government, and the long-festering war with Israel. Just before Nasser's death, a number of Egyptians were voicing cautious optimism about the prospects for peace. "We can't go on like this," said a leader of Egypt's national assembly. "We are spending half a billion pounds a year to finance this war. Israel is hurting the same way. When two countries need peace as badly...
They could give the economy a lift if they started spending, but unemployment will lead them to remain cautious. Board members expect the savings rate to decline only...
...aftermath he credited his strategy with cautious success. It was a crisis, but not, perhaps, as great as reckoned earlier. It was like others before it. It will not be the last of its kind. "Russia is going to continue to probe...
When Robert Kennedy was killed, Unruh says, "I nearly went crazy." Later he found that R.F.K.'s death taught him "a sense of high-risk politics." Says Unruh: "I was always a very cautious, close-to-the-vest politician. Now politics has stopped being a game with me. So much of my early trouble came because I simply didn't give a damn. When I started out, it was with the idea of changing things with idealism. Then how quickly the system picked me up and got me involved, and how long it took me to realize that...
...rapid within a decade in the nation's history. Among other things, the drop could mean at least temporary relief for all of the communities that have been scrambling for years to provide sufficient classroom space for their increasing numbers of children. It may also indicate that a cautious new psychology of family planning and reproduction is taking hold...