Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future policies. In too many years since World War II, the budget has brought higher taxes, tighter credit and myriad other measures designed to solve Britain's chronic balance of payments problem. This time Jenkins offered much hope-and some relief. He could well afford what he termed "cautious optimism...
That same modesty underlies the book's most serious limitation, at least for readers who already share Cowan's disillusionment. Making of an Un-American looks behind us: its few implications for the future are cautious and vague. Cowan is, as Mark Rudd would doubtless sneer, an armchair revolutionary. He freely admits his inability to reduce the bankruptcy of reformism to personal revolutionary action. He brilliantly delineates how he got where he is, but takes us no further. His book ends with a disappointing abruptness after his revulsion for the Peace Corps comes to a climax. He is "un" -Americanized...
Although it exports its products with ever-increasing enthusiasm, Japan has maintained a closed-door policy toward imports and foreign investments. It has been under heavy pressure from its trading partners in recent years to ease its rigid protectionism. Still, the Japanese are cautious; if they must open their economy to big foreign investment, they want no corporate giants from abroad to take over too much...
...that little had been done to improve their lot. That failure gave the Nixon Administration its first real trial by crisis, and the President handled it with considerable skill. His options were few. Seeking to avoid either showing weakness or risking exacerbating the situation by overreaction, Nixon chose a cautious middle course. Having threatened to take action if the strike was not ended by the first of last week, he watched over the weekend as one union local after another joined the walkout. Then, convinced that the walkout was spreading, he moved decisively. After briefing congressional leaders on his plans...
...Though aware that their countries need foreign investment to thrive, Latin ruling cliques have made much political mileage out of complaining that U.S. investment amounts to "economic imperialism." To demonstrate their independence of the U.S., some governments harass Yanqui enterprises while soliciting foreign investment elsewhere. As U.S. businessmen turn cautious, the Soviet Union is expanding its trade and technical aid to much of the continent. The current investment climate in major nations...