Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of Jim Henson's Muppets, the members of our staff who worked on this week's Show Business story underwent a remarkable transformation. They all began by assuming that Muppets were strictly for kids, but they ended up shaking Kermit's hand, being cautious in the presence of Statler and Waldorf, and avoiding the near lethal karate chops of Miss Piggy. "It's magic," says Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro. "The Muppets have something that is real: straightforward humanity. All of their feelings are right out front. How can you not believe that they are real...
...Brathwaite Burke, who lost her campaign for attorney general. Even Ted Kennedy, who remains the most popular white politician among black voters, raised hackles in black communities by campaigning for Ed Brooke's Democratic opponent. Says Massachusetts State Senator Bill Owens: "We'll have to be more cautious in choosing our friends...
After agonizing for eight months, Webster announced a cautious decision. He fired two supervisors. They are Horace Beckwith, who headed Squad 47, and Brian Murphy, a Beckwith aide who, according to Webster, gave answers "unworthy of belief to questions about the burglaries. Another former supervisor, Charles Lunsford, was demoted for giving what Webster termed "evasive and inconsistent" answers. Suspended for 30 days was former Supervisor Gerard Hogan, for installing a listening device without a warrant. Two agents received wrist-tapping letters of censure. The other members of Squad 47 were not punished...
...shopping-center parking lots. But retailers still do not have a feel for how much the public will buy in a season of inflation-pinched pocket books and recession fears. Though some detect a one-last-fling attitude on the part of customers, many merchants have been notably cautious in stocking up, largely because high interest rates make borrowing to carry a large inventory too much of a risk. Says Leonard Lauder, president of Estée Lauder Inc., Revlon's toughest rival in the high-priced end of the cosmetics business: "The thing I predict with absolute certainty for this...
There was still time though, when we were finally all reunited and thrown into the Trailways bus, to make our flight. We spent New Year's Eve in the wilds of Utah in a bus with a driver who was too cautious to ever rush for any flight, let alone ours. We passed the hat around and collected money for him--$50, $100, $122.37--if he got us the airport for our flight. Battle plans were hastily drawn up. The male chaperone-a track coach at Pali High and a former sprinter, would make a run for the gate...