Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down the numbers of U.S. ground troops that had to be committed and of forcing the Communists to negotiate a peace. He avoids talking about the war, except to admit that he made mistakes. Says he: "A lesson we learned from Viet Nam is that we should be very cautious about intervening in any place where there's a poor political base for our presence." Brown also learned a more personal lesson. Says a colleague: "Viet Nam showed him there are some problems that have no neat solution, no technical answer, no matter how many times you redo the formula...
...have all been through it. As freshmen, we anxiously awaited that fateful spring day on which we received the judgment that could make or break our Harvard years: House assignments. This year's freshmen were especially cautious in plotting their housing strategies. Some relied on computer readouts, intricate polls and the ever-trustworthy grapevine for data on their housing game plan...
Other students were even more cautious. "This letter only represents the views of a small minority," Otto Chu, a first-year student, said yesterday...
Long John gets on the telephone and calls Harpo. He tells Harpo about Bobick and Frazier and Wepner and Rocky. Then he tells him about Norton. Long John is cautious. He knows some of Harpo's friends call him up to find out who Harpo thinks is a sure bet. Then they bet the other way. That's called the Harpo System. (In the back of his mind, Long John's hoping Harpo will scare some people into betting for Bobick.) Because Harpo smells a sure winner...
...boom is being fueled by lending institutions stuffed with available mortgage money. During the past two years many cautious consumers fattened their savings accounts instead of spending. The country's savings and loan institutions, prime source of housing mortgage money, not only replaced the cash that drained out of them during the money squeeze of 1973-74, but grew heavy with funds that no one wanted to borrow. Now mortgage interest rates have declined to a national average of 8½% to 8¾%, v. 9% at the height of the money squeeze, and S and Ls are requiring...