Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adversary situation, was the U.S. on behalf of Israel. It is precisely this echo of ordinary law practices in world affairs that intrigues Rogers and leads him to approach his duties from a lawyer's point of view. Rogers' approach to the law is low-key and cautious. In private practice, where between Administrations he earned $300,000 a year in corporate law (among his clients: the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Associated Press), Rogers was noted for his deftly understated approach to problems. "I never believed in forcing the other fellow to come...
...private contractors has dwindled from 420,000 in the heyday of the Apollo program to fewer than 145,000 today. Nor has NASA gotten significant support from the White House. "With the entire future and the entire universe before us," said President Nixon, outlining the Administration's cautious new approach to space, "we should not try to do everything at once...
...arms to South Africa, and the most serious act of violence in the hallowed House of Commons since Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot to death in a lobby there in 1812. On top of all that, complaints were beginning to be voiced that Heath's deliberate, coolly cautious style could merely be a mask for inaction...
...plans that call for 1) coordinating student campaigners through campus centers (like those sponsored by the Princeton-based Movement for a New Congress), and 2) granting pre-election recesses to allow students and faculty to work in campaigns. After consulting the IRS, the American Council on Education has issued cautious guidelines. Colleges that lend a substantial portion of their facilities to groups backing specific candidates or legislation may compromise their legal status as educational institutions and forfeit their exemption from local property taxes and federal taxes on endowment income. This would also cancel their contributors' right to deduct gifts...
...identity transplant involves taping and filming scenes from Home's life and then electronically piping them into the head of 233/4, as the receptacle is officially known. Around the shop he is called Black Bear. Before the procedure is completed, however, cautious management decides to cut all of Home's post-Korean memories from the input. Instead of a research scientist stuffed with secrets, Black Bear is to be made into a minor scholar of Slavic literature, which is Home's avocation...