Word: cautiously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Soviet purchases of the new technology of communication -- desktop publishing, computers and modems, fax and Xerox machines, cellular telephones -- could also have far-reaching effects. Washington has been cautious about releasing some of this, for fear it might enhance Soviet military power. On the contrary, it is more likely to advance the free flow of ideas and the growth of political diversity. A centralized state would find it hard to turn back the clock...
This was the court's long-awaited first venture into the highly emotional controversy over the right to die, an unfortunate consequence of modern medicine's ability to keep people alive in a state of semideath. In a cautious and carefully hedged decision, the Rehnquist majority declared for the first time that there is indeed a right to die. Rehnquist pointedly explained that this right derives not from any implicit constitutional guarantee of privacy (which conservatives insist is not actually in the Constitution) but rather from the 14th Amendment's due-process clause. "The principle that a competent person...
...found from the economic sanctions imposed in April by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev: "We have to do something. We have to take a risk." The resolution set a time limit and stipulated that it could be extended or terminated only by the Lithuanians. These conditions finally brought the more cautious President Vytautas Landsbergis on board and made a lifting of the blockade possible...
Many Westerners are likewise cautious as they weigh the benefits and risks of venturing into Eastern Europe. Some firms are waiting to gauge the political and economic turmoil that still roils the region. But those companies that fail to consider Eastern Europe today run the risk of being left out of what may well be tomorrow's land of opportunity...
Bush is a cautious politician dedicated largely to making relatively minor adjustments in the status quo. In his Inaugural Address he asserted that "there are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mist will lift and reveal the right path." It is impossible to imagine Gorbachev uttering a sentence like that. He sees himself as a revolutionary shatterer of the status quo who would insist on pushing ahead through...