Word: cautiously
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...controls, but to any forms of governmental management of a free economy, and has gone out of his way to avoid the arm-twisting tactics of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. His espousal of the "inflation alert," though still far short of the jawboning he abhors, thus represents a cautious step away from a passive posture to an activist presidential role in economic policy. "Now is the time for business at every level to take price actions more consistent with a stable cost of living," said the President. "Now is the time for labor to structure its wage demands...
...Rota and airbases at Torrejón and Saragossa, Spain has been demanding a renewal of the pledge of American protection along the lines of the one in the existing agreement stating that "a threat to either country would be a matter of common concern." Because of the cautious mood in the Senate about U.S. commitments abroad, the Nixon Administration is hesitant about again granting such assurances...
...January sought to underscore the uncertain outlook for his celebrated Ostpolitik, whose aim is to close the gap between the two halves of the divided nation. Last week, after a one-day summit meeting with East German Premier Willi Stoph in the West German city of Kassel, even that cautious phraseology seemed too optimistic. The results of the Kassel conference, Brandt conceded sadly, "prove once more how deep is the trench between the two parts of Germany...
...Most important were the rasping W.C. Fields tones of Arthur F. Burns, Nixon's longtime economic mentor. Now, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Burns is the master of the nation's money supply. Coming from anyone else, what he said might not have seemed startling; coming from cautious Arthur Burns, it raised eyebrows around the country...
Will the blacks be the saving remnant? Can they join white America, in James Baldwin's words, to "achieve our country, and change the history of the world?" With cautious romanticism, Braden is half tempted to think so, because, like Baldwin, but perhaps incorrectly, he assumes that the black has not been conned by the myths of white America−above all, by the "ideology of maximum production and maximum consumption." At any rate, Braden, an amateur theologian (The Private Sea), concludes that nothing short of a religious conversion can save America. Technology is beyond reversal−"that which...