Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleary's kids had their chances near the end of the period with a two-man advantage for a full minute and a man-advantage for a minute after that. But the power play was cautious and the puck just would not pass Warden. The stage was set for Steele...
Most experts are convinced that the Arabs will eventually move beyond such cautious investments to ones that have more political clout. One reason: they genuinely, though wrongly, believe that U.S. support for Israel stems partly from a Zionist hammerlock on U.S. business, and are eager to break it. One industrial area that the Arabs are certain to aim at is so-called "downstream" oil activity-refining and marketing in consuming nations. Kuwait is already considering buying a large chunk of Gulf Oil stock (from whom is not clear...
...eventually votes to absolve the President without a Senate trial. The bipartisan legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee issued a well-researched report declaring that a President can be impeached for official misconduct that stops short of a clear-cut crime. Then the committee finally began its cautious pursuit of the White House tapes, documents and other evidence that could make impeachment all but inevitable (see box following page...
Ineligible to succeed himself for a third term, Oregon's popular Governor Tom McCall, 60, was cautious about the latest announced contender for his office. "She has all her marbles," he acknowledged. As for the lady chasing the Republican gubernatorial nomination this year-Mrs. Dorothy Lawson McCall, 85-she promised support for most of her son's record. She has assured him that she will continue his innovative environmental programs but will avoid "putting my foot in my mouth"-a reference to the Governor's outspokenness. McCall said that any discouragement from him "would only spur...
Harvard, which has dominated the competition consistently for the last six years, should withdraw immediately and encourage the withdrawal of Ivy League schools and all colleges involved. This step would place long-overdue pressure on state committees and trustees who have been unduly cautious in their efforts to revise the Rhodes will...