Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 70, former Senator from Arkansas and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a member of a Washington law firm: "We should put this down to experience, and from here on we should be much more mature, more cautious and more responsible in our approach to these matters. Americans have assumed a certain godliness, a certain feeling that everything we did was just wonderful while everyone else was either bad or questionable. One of our greatest faults has been a contemptuous, supercilious attitude-calling the other side 'gooks' and 'charlies' I think...
...Asia: "It always seemed that this would be the denouement. It was clear when the Paris accords were signed that they would be violated by both sides-and they were. Now we must be careful to read the right lessons for the future. First, we must be critical and cautious where and how we commit American power. In South Viet Nam there was no political structure sufficiently sturdy to bear the weight of our power. Second, we must be certain when forces are committed in support of American interests that our interests are more than marginal...
...varsity has the first-seed honors despite its man-overboard loss to Navy. But the traditionally cautious Higginson seems confident with his crews' prospects. "We're pretty well prepared and the Princeton course is slightly more fair than Worcester," he said...
...West. The area's mood is one of cautious optimism hedged with severe reservations. Some consumer-goods companies and conglomerates that have had freezes on hiring are now beginning to take on a few more workers. Total employment is rising in California, though still declining nationwide. Tourist businesses are flourishing because of a trend to vacation in the U.S. instead of overseas. Housing starts remain low, and 40% of the carpenters in San Diego are unemployed, but increasing demand for mortgages indicates a bottoming-out in that industry...
...Shelepin is a mere stripling in the ruling Soviet gerontocracy. He was the youngest member in the Politburo, where the average age is 66, and probably the healthiest. Moreover, as George Washington University Kremlinologist Carl Linden sees it, his impatient approach probably clashed with that of his cautious elders. "While Brezhnev and the other old men wanted to pursue glacial tactics, Shelepin was an activist, always looking for opportunities to shake things up in the world. He has probably favored pressing the Soviet advantage in Indochina, Portugal and the Middle East more actively than Brezhnev...