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...other international financial institutions must occur soon. It’s great that the IMF received funds to aid struggling developing countries, but part of the reason those countries are in the position they’re in is because of IMF advice: The IMF must become more cautious, contextualist, and concerned with sustainability. The same goes for the World Bank...
...Going into the last five minutes of the half, both teams seemed to be cautious with the ball, passing along the outside and waiting for the perfect opportunity. The Bulldogs’ Logan Greer found that opportunity with 3:31 left, scoring against freshman Kerry Clark, who notched five saves in the game...
Ironically, what helped start the rally in mid March were upbeat words from Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit about Citigroup's profitable performance during the first two months of 2009. Friday's stock market swoon, traders say, was partly triggered by cautious comments from Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who both noted that March was proving to be a more difficult month than either January or February. As Dimon told Bloomberg TV while standing outside the White House after a group of bankers met with President Obama, "This downturn - it's pretty powerful...
Then again, we might not be - and premature optimists have been punished several times already during this downturn. So the people who make a living calling the twists and turns of the economy have become almost comically cautious about declaring an inflection point. Some examples...
...Wilder and his colleagues are also cautious about their results because the data do not make clear whether it was the anesthesia that contributed to the children's learning deficits or whether it was an underlying condition that may have required surgery and precipitated the learning problems. Of the more than 5,000 babies studied, 593 needed at least one surgery and just over 100 infants needed more than two before age 3. There may have been something unusual about this population of children that made them vulnerable to learning problems and required them to undergo surgery and anesthesia...