Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indicate more inflation than had been anticipated. One top Ford Administration economist, who had been estimating that prices would be rising at a 6% rate at year's end, now privately predicts 7%. Any prolonged new surge of inflation could threaten the recovery itself by making consumers turn cautious and reduce the spending that has been lifting the nation out of its slump...
...week's end doctors expressed cautious optimism about the chances for recovery, moved the men from the hospital's intensive-care unit to a private...
...lovingly modeled on Gary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief. Litton must track down the real culprits while Clouseau stalks him. There is little question of ever catching Litton, of course, but the unnatural disasters that Clouseau's pursuit can bring might make any man cautious...
Even a reformed system, say cautious critics, should not be expected to do much more than punish and isolate offenders from society. "Whether or not prisoners will change is not the issue," says Joe Hickey. "To the extent that people see criminal-justice system as fair, to that extent will they have more respect for the law. We would be ahead if we could even
...unhealthily high 70% of the firm's entire capital. By selling $24 million in stock in April, Baker reduced its debt-to-equity ratio to a more comfortable fifty-fifty. So far, energy-related companies have been most successful in selling new stock. Buyers, however, remain cautious and highly selective. Two weeks ago, when an underwriting syndicate headed by Merrill Lynch brought out a $31 million stock offering for a small Massachusetts minicomputer maker named Data General, response was so poor that Merrill Lynch had to cut the price on the issue after one day, causing losses for many...