Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illegally diverted family funds, including money borrowed from Lance's bank, to Jimmy's campaign treasury. The charges became so persistent that then Attorney General Griffin Bell reluctantly announced he would appoint a Watergate-style investigator. Last March he handed that touchy job to Curran, a cautious, scrupulously methodical former U.S. Attorney from New York, who also happened to be a Republican...
...going to turn down quite sharply. We are forecasting that unemployment, now 5.8%, will hit 8% by the second half of next year." Still, Eckstein thinks that the recession will be a bit less bitter than in 1973-75. "The use of credit by business has been considerably more cautious, inventories are not anywhere near as high as they were in 1974, capital spending has not been that excessive, housing activity has not been excessive, so the [current] exposure of the private economy is a lot less...
Carter and his supporters were more cautious, though they began to smell success toward the end. At his press conference, the President described the upcoming vote as "significant," and a Carter backer predicted that he would win 65% of the vote. But one staffer admitted: "We'll be happy with a victory...
...Ohira can safely ignore demands that he resign, to form a Cabinet he will probably have to surrender some prized ministerial portfolios to the disgruntled powerbrokers who head rival factions within the L.D.P. Last week the Bull looked corralled and sounded bearish. Confessed Ohira: "I should have been more cautious in bringing up the zozei issue...
...kind of overprotectiveness irritates many of the women. Says Kathleen Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity: "Your male NCOS aren't comfortable talking about female physiology. The effect is to err on the side of being extremely cautious and remove them from danger. It's the women who fight to stay on duty...