Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite continued repression, there has been a cautious but discernible rise in public criticism of the junta. The main target of the complaints has been the regime's economic policies, which thus far have failed to curb the country's astronomical inflation, now rocketing at the rate of 1% each day, or its 15% unemployment rate...
...Hemingways were at first cautious about Errol. But since that Christmas visit, Errol has been in close touch with Jack. Together with Margaux's agent Peggy Nestor, they set up the Fabergé deal, which runs until 1980 and may yield Margaux more than a million if she promotes other products for Fabergé as well...
...Watership Down is a fantasy in which the rabbits talk to each other, and otherwise behave inteligently in their own rabbit-like ways. One of them, Cassandra-like, prophesies the future and sets them off on their adventure. Adams has that streak of Pessimism too, he's just more cautious. Even after the "most extraordinary phenomemon" of Watership's success. Adams didn't quit his Civil Service job. He waited until the publishers accepted his second novel. Shardik, and told him that it was "great, that they'd start with 100,000 copies, and all that sort of thing." Adams...
...Kevin White will be re-elected as mayor in November, but how great his margin of victory will be. Against a disorganized field of candidates, save for Senator Timilty, his position looks too strong to beat. Although he does feel more confident than last fall, White himself expresses only "cautious hope" for a victory. Perhaps one of his aides was more realistic: "We're going to win no matter who runs...
...cautious old soldier in Eisenhower saved us from the headstrong secret devisings of John Foster Dulles and Admiral Arthur Radford in 1954. "No one could be more opposed to getting the U.S. involved in a hot war in [Indochina] than I am," he said. "I cannot conceive of a greater tragedy." When Dulles and Radford dreamed up an air strike (with Vice President Richard Nixon's blessing), Ike's insistence that other countries join us and that prior congressional authorization be given caused the plan to fail. One wonders if Ike, with a shake of the head, would...