Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teams matched even but cautious play in the middle stanza as the Crimson maintained a slim 6-5 lead going into the halftime intermission...
...cautious Martin says of himself: "I'm still the only guy around who's not emotionally involved in Viet Nam." After nearly three decades in the Foreign Service, he dreams of being able to retire to some property he owns in Italy. "I told Henry [Kissinger] I'd come out here for a year, and it's been almost two," he says. "In Italy, I would do some writing, and I'd experiment with grafting an olive to a juniper to produce an instant Martini-one that needed...
...least, neutral descriptions of occupational roles. Unfortunately, administrators and bureaucrats have fallen into general disrepute of late (much of it well-deserved), and the term "bureaucrat" has become positively pejorative. In the post-Watergate era, it is easy to understand why the image of the self-serving, over-cautious, callous, and arrogant bureaucrat has become so widespread, and so easily applicable to almost any large administrative organization. But the image of the self-serving, double-talking administrator has been so universally applied around Harvard that many administration figures wonder whether or not the undergraduate population even tries to find...
...these indicators warrant only a cautious optimism. Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a compromise $82.5 million military aid plan for Cambodia. And even though it is doubtful that this plan will be approved in the House, where a similar bill was already defeated, there are no guarantees...
Goldman warns that the University's departments should be cautious that certain corporations don't distort their focus. He says it would be unfortunate if the East Asian Studies Center grew where corporations giving money to it are involved and not in other areas. "You can't be ethnocentric, you must study the whole context," Goldman says. "It would be awkward to set up a study center just for Kuwaiti studies...