Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French Communists filed into an oyster-shaped sports arena for their 22nd Party Congress. A sign inside the hall proclaimed: A DEMOCRATIC ROAD TO SOCIALISM-A SOCIALISM FOR FRANCE. Party Leader Georges Marchais amplified that soothing slogan in a five-hour opening address that amounted to a cautious declaration of independence from Moscow...
...strategy for at least two million years. There is also no doubt that child care has been primarily a female activity. Among all known contemporary hunter-gatherers hunting is largely or exclusively done by males, while females do the majority of wild-plant gathering. Thus Wilson is being very cautious when he says "There is no compelling reason to conclude that men did the hunting while women stayed at home" (during early human evolution) for "Comparisons with other primate species offer no clue as to when the trait appeared...
...ideologies, have been reported from essentially all human groups that are not either 1) spatially and technologically isolated from neighboring groups, or 2) already defeated in the contest for a larger share of an area's resources (i.e. "refuge" and "client" groups.) Referring to hunter-gatherers, Wilson is again cautious when he states: "Systematic overt aggression has been reported in a minority of hunter-gatherer peoples." 2 My own recent research suggests that armed conflict between individuals or small groups was a tactical possibility among a large majority of such peoples and that it occurred before colonial contact...
...Reconstruction": Any description of human life in the past must be a reconstruction. Any attempt to describe the nature of selection pressures in populations that could not be observed directly must be based on inference. Yet archeology and paleontology have made progress nevertheless. Overall, Wilson's account is more cautious than that contained in the full body of literature which he has abstracted...
Another Marriage. Ironically, a major obstacle for the House Democrats may be the Democratic leadership in the Senate, which is still cautious and accommodating. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who doubts that he has the votes to override many of Ford's vetoes, expects to work out "more cooperation with the President and maybe a return to the 'marriage' [with Congress] he talked about at the start. I don't think there will be too much new legislation. I must point out that I'm for national health insurance, but I don't believe...