Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monsters. Once the first lander was safely down on Martian soil-thereby assuring at least partial success of the $1 billion, eight-year-long Viking project-scientists decided that they could afford to be less cautious with Viking 2, which is approaching Mars and scheduled to go into orbit on Aug. 7. Last week scientists were considering setting the second lander down in a rugged northern region that would be more hazardous for landing than Viking 1's site but potentially more interesting to geologists and biologists...
...events that led to Entebbe, the Israelis say, reaffirm an argument they have made for years: skyjackings will continue unless foreign airlines become as cautious as Israel's own El Al. They note that only one El Al plane was ever successfully skyjacked. That was in 1968, and the airline has been on the "aggressive defensive" ever since...
...else to the devastating double-digit inflation of 1973-74. Commodity prices plummeted during the recent world recession, but now they are bouncing up again more rapidly than had been generally anticipated. Emile van Lennep, secretary-general of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, warns in cautious economist's jargon that "the surprisingly early recovery of some commodity prices could presage a new outbreak of speculative price rises and pose a serious threat to the sustainability of the present economic recovery...
...transition to democracy was complete and that it was therefore time for a change. Most observers, though, believed that he had been forced out of office by Juan Carlos, who did not want him as Premier in the first place and who considers him too stiff and cautious. Relations between the two men have steadily deteriorated, and it seemed the King wanted a man less beholden to the archconservative Franquistas (known collectively as "the Bunker") as his chief of government...
Like other agents in charge of the FBI's 59 field offices, John F. Malone, known as "Cement Head" to his colleagues, was a cautious man. When he headed the New York City office from 1962 to 1975, he followed the instructions of FBI headquarters to the letter and stashed his most sensitive papers in a private safe to keep them beyond the reach of nosy congressional investigators...