Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rural areas, an end to press censorship, restriction on government control of TV and radio. But such plans depend greatly on the Middle East peace negotiations. In some ways, Sadat trusts Khalil to handle these negotiations more than he trusts himself. Sadat is visionary and mercurial; Khalil is cautious and dispassionate. Sadat relies on Khalil to weigh and analyze every Israeli proposal more carefully than Sadat himself might. As one Egyptian official put it, "Khalil would not rise and fall like the snake under the spell of Begin's music." If that music led to an actual treaty...
...couple of killshots, then became overly cautious and didn't take the chances I should have," Acosta said yesterday...
...economics, but was prouder of a pin he had just been awarded marking his 20 years of Government service. Barnet showed me the ropes, then leaned back and laid out his philosophy of how to succeed in the bureaucracy: please your boss, cover your ass and always, always be cautious. Patience was the greatest virtue. The way to get ahead was not to outshine everyone else, but to do precisely what your superiors wanted, prove your loyalty and get to know everything you could about the bureaucracy's inner workings...
...Connecticut household of Poet Robert Fitzgerald, his wife Sally and a brood of small children, working on a novel optioned by a New York publisher. Then she was hit with disseminated lupus erythematosus, a severe disease that could be kept at bay only with drugs and a straitened, cautious existence. She went home and wrote as hard as her reduced energy would permit. Two novels and a volume of short stories created a critical stir. In 1964 she was readying a second book of stories for publication when the lupus flared up and killed...
Members of the Harvard community yesterday reacted with cautious optimism to the possibility of Ugandan president Idi Amin's downfall...