Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first and foremost against our own executives . . . for not being able to think big, for still being wary of large-scale developments in economic cooperation, although the Soviet Union is a country rich in resources. But at the same time, I also criticized you gentlemen for also being too cautious...
Beneath the bonhomie, say officials who have sat in on discussions with him, he is a very cautious politician. Though much more surefooted now than in his earlier years at the top, he is still not totally at ease in foreign affairs and relies heavily on Gromyko...
...discussions.) Most Spaniards who want change pin their hopes on the prince, whom they regard as being more liberal than Franco or Carrero Blanco. For the time being, however, Juan Carlos was simply faced with another wait. Was he bored? "The prince is very shrewd, very cool, very cautious," says a longtime friend. "Twenty years of eating thorns for breakfast makes a man very tough...
Berkey owns the Willoughby-Peerless chain of camera and hi-fi retail stores in New York and Pennsylvania, distributes the Minox and Konica lines of imported camera products, and since 1966 has owned Keystone. A cautious businessman despite his somewhat raffish appearance, Berkey still rues a day in the 1940s when he had a chance to invest in a new product called Polaroid cameras, "but I told them I wouldn't give them a nickel." Last year, Berkey finally managed to recoup a bit on that mistake: Keystone brought out the only instant camera that has ever been developed...
...Pusey years remain, but they grow weaker and weaker. While Bok stays home to mind the store, Pusey's right arm goes to Washington to make government respectable again. It may be an impossible task at this point. For the moment at least, Bok will stick to his cautious program aimed at making Harvard respectable...