Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factors--the possibility that the Kennedy Memorial Library will be located on the Bennett St. MBTA yards and the recent emphasis President Johnson has placed on open urban spaces--have given underpass opponents cause for cautious optimism in this year's legislative battle...
...Cautious Investment. About $6.7 billion will be spent on these and other research and development projects next year. But the Defense Department can present a slightly lower overall bill because of Secretary Robert McNamara's cost reduction program, which is saving $2.5 billion annually, and because the huge initial expenditures of deploying Minuteman, Titan and Atlas ICBMs are now past (such costs have dropped from $3.5 billion in fiscal '64 to $1.8 billion scheduled for '66). Moreover, McNamara is being cautious about the investments in really new weapons. Despite longstanding congressional demands, the defense message called...
...been rising steadily. Since 1959, the fund has increased its total assets by 25% to $2.1 billion, and the value of shareholders' investments and reinvested dividends has risen more than 36%. The fund even rode out the 1962 market slump with a minimum of damage because of its cautious policy of investing in reliable, high-quality stocks. Despite the company's bigness, M.I.T.'s billions are still tended by only five trustees, ten senior investment analysts, and a home office work force of 39 (including messengers). Result: the cost of managing the fund is a bare...
...some other things like wisdom, but when you think back to 20 years after World War I and compare it to our situation 20 years after World War II, I'd say we are in a lot better shape today." As for President Johnson, "he has been very cautious, which I approve. He hasn't done anything wrong. He hasn't yet done much affirmative either, but it is quite in his favor that he hasn't done anything foolish...
Says Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, former U.S. Ambassador to India: "We are badly out of date and still behave as though the neutral nations were major considerations in the cold war." Galbraith characterizes U.S. foreign policy in general as overly cautious and boring. "It seems that our policy is in the hands of men whose mothers were frightened by John W. Bricker," he says. No one knows for sure just what that sentence means, but it sounds great on the playing fields of academe...