Word: cautiously
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...referendums as a means of going directly to the people over the heads of elected politicians. Behind the current resurgence of balloting on issues is a post-Watergate distrust of elected officials and a growing impatience with state legislatures, which the constituents often feel are lead-footed and overly cautious. Says Robert Hughes, a G.O.P. chairman in the Cleveland area: "People are saying, 'By God, the power is vested in the people, and if the elected officials won't respond to what the people want, then we'll do something about it.' " Many politicians are delighted...
...become the symbol of resistance to integration. Simultaneously, however, the voters turned down a reform of the city charter designed to make it harder-by changing representational patterns-for one small, determined group, like the antibusers, to have more power than they deserve. Charter reform succumbed to a cautious electorate that preferred to switch candidates instead of the system...
Thus businessmen are unusually cautious these days in planning for the future. According to a McGraw-Hill survey, they intend to increase real spending -that is, after allowing for inflation-on new plant and equipment next year by only 3%. That would represent a sharp drop from this year's increase of about 8%, which economists consider insufficient. Indeed, the Administration had hoped for an 8% to 10% increase in capital spending next year to keep production growing, bring down unemployment and continue the nation's recovery from the deep recession...
...face of this increasingly evident intransigence, the Carter administration's response thus far has been overly cautious, if not to say timid. Although symbolically significant, the U.S. agreement in the United Nations last week to a mandatory embargo on all military sales to the Vorster regime does not substantially alter America's official posture, which for over a decade has been voluntary refusal to deal arms to South Africa. The U.S. decision, meanwhile, to use its Security Council veto to block proposals for equivalent embargoes on trade and investment suggests that the Carter administration still holds out hope for bringing...
...challenging Independents, David J. Holway, Kennedy and Ragno, are hesitant about committing themselves to one side or the other. They say they are perplexed by the residency requirement and cautious about Superintendent Lannon. Holway and Kennedy have taken revitalization of neighborhood schools, especially the elementary school, as their personal causes. Kennedy and Ragno are first-time candidates while Holway finished a strong seventh two years ago and poses the greatest threat to the incumbents...