Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bald, cautious and professorial. He has earned no great prestige within his profession or even within his specialty. He is so nondescript, in fact, that his rather solemn-minded boss, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, seems positively charismatic by comparison. But if Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Kauper (pronounced koy-per), 38, does not look like a tiger, he is beginning to act like one. In an Administration that has become all too cozy with big businessmen seeking influence, the chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division has kept up steady pressure against monopolistic practices−including some...
...mood of restrained jubilation and cautious hope, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladesh officials settled down last week to tackle the immense logistical problems posed by a new peace settlement that affects the whole subcontinent. After 19 days of hard bargaining in Islamabad and New Delhi, India and Pakistan agreed-with Bangladesh concurrence-that 1) 90,000 Pakistani military and civilian prisoners of war who have been held captive in India since the end of the December 1971 Indo-Pakistani war will be sent home; 2) an estimated 200,000 Bengalis stranded in Pakistan at war's end will be allowed...
Since the Supreme Court ruling made abortions legal at the discretion of a woman and her doctor, Blue Cross/Blue Shield has become a little more cautious about paying for abortions, Kathleen Kirkman, staff assistant for student insurance, said Tuesday. A pregnant woman wanting an abortion referral from UHS must have her case certified by UHS physicians, and they must decide that the abortion is a therapeutic measure...
...court is unable to design a more cautious approach consistent with both the demonstrated critical need for the evidence and the serious questions raised concerning the applicability of the privilege asserted. The court has attempted to walk the middle ground between a formula to decide the question of privilege at one extreme, and a wholesale delivery of tapes to the grand jury at the other. The one would be a breach of duty, the other an inexcusable course of conduct...
...really hustling," he says. "A hustle implies that the result is known in advance, that you set it up. But I don't do that; if it involves games of skill, I'll take just about anything. When luck is involved I'm more cautious; I never bet on horses, and I don't like to shoot craps. What I live for is the matching of wits, the game...