Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the third world students I sought to write about are scared--or at the very least, cautious in talking on subjects not involving the types of cuisine they prefer or even what they think about the unfamiliar largelecture style of education at Harvard. About personal life histories--almost all came from elite Westernized families in places like India, Bangladesh and Ghana--they are mostly open, some even voluble. But about polities outside the bonds approved by their governments they hesitate to speak, at least two of them citing fear of their country's secret police organizations or government...
...jurisdiction over the disputed territory of South West Africa (Namibia) and to assuage his own black majority. After Pretoria's military misadventure in Angola, South Africans are chary of being sucked into another no-win situation. Vorster's response to the "state of war" last week was cautious, and he carefully avoided taking sides. But South Africa's influential Financial Mail minced no words about what his course should be. The only way to stop the dangerous chain of events that threatened to drag South Africa into war, the magazine editorialized, was for Vorster...
...beginning of the indoor track season, coach Bill McCurdy did not predict any great achievements for his squad. Even after a 94-18 romp over B.U. in the season opener, McCurdy was still cautious...
Charles A. Thomas, professor of Biological Chemistry at the Medical School, yesterday called the guidelines "excessively cautious...
...general mood was one of cautious optimism for the rest of 1976-but deep worry, at least among the liberals, about 1977. So far, the economists agree, the recovery is proceeding right in line with their forecasts (TIME, Dec. 22), which call for a rise of about 6% in real gross national product this year and a decline in unemployment to somewhere between 7% and 7.5% by year's end. Last week the Department of Labor reported that the jobless rate dropped from 8.3% in December to 7.8% in January. That was the steepest monthly decline in more than...