Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Yet by Thursday afternoon the barometric Dow-Jones industrial average had fallen 33 points to a seven-year low of 685. On Friday, prices rallied briskly enough to send the Dow average up 17 points to 702. The rise stirred some cautious chatter among brokers and analysts that the market might be, in Wall Street's convoluted jargon, "bottoming...
...single, definitive statement from the administration-aligning the University either with the employees strike or against them-would have been sufficient. But it never came; rather the University played the cautious middle. Its hazily-defined rhetoric served only to frustrate and anger both students and employees; it seems senseless to bring charges against 56 student pickets at University Hall without giving them cause to leave...
...destroy North Viet Nam's military sanctuaries in Cambodia were officially tagged by the Army Operation Total Victory No. 42 and No. 43. Operations Total Victory Nos. 1 through 41 had taken place over the past 18 months-with results the country knew only too well. After his cautious policy of steady disengagement from Viet Nam, Nixon suddenly raised the specter of a wider war, with military, diplomatic and domestic political consequences that could be momentous...
Given this uphill battle to fulfill its groundskeeping task, B and G is understandably cautious about proposals to reduce spraying. Even if such a proposal could produce a more natural ecological balance in the long run, most options to stop spraying run the risk of losing some green plant cover, at least for the first few years...
What will the Russians do with their power? For one thing, they may be emboldened to become less wary about facing down the U.S. in isolated instances abroad. Equally important, the U.S. may become more cautious about situations that could lead to a confrontation. With Soviet ships all over the Mediterranean, a U.S. landing in Lebanon of the 1958 variety would be virtually out of the question today. The main thrust of Soviet power, however, is almost certain to be toward undermining the confidence of U.S. allies in the value of American protection and to move into areas where...