Word: cautiously
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WASHINGTON: Alan Greenspan, arguably the second most powerful man in America, is starting to sound just like your mother. "The exemplary performance of the U.S. economy in 1997 will be hard to match," he warned Congress Wednesday. "We must remain cautious about extrapolating recent favorable tax inflows into the future...
University Vice President for Finance ElizabethC. "Beppie" Huidekoper, said the University willalways be cautious about enormous surges in payoutbecause its first priority is keeping itsmulti-billion nest egg intact for posterity...
...When President Khatami put out the peace feelers last year, he was reflecting public sentiment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Most ordinary Iranians don't share the leadership's animosity toward the U.S." Still, the conservatives managed to force Khatami to be more cautious in his calls for renewed contact between the two nations. The wrestlers may be the first of a number of American delegations to visit Iran in the near future, but it'll be some time ? and even more burned flags ? before the U.S. reoccupies the embassy it left behind...
...Starr had never prosecuted a case in his life before he set out to investigate the President of the United States. A cautious, righteous, minister's son, whose mother considers it something of a moral lapse that he now drinks coffee, he spent most of his life as a judge and a corporate lawyer, and still represents clients like Big Tobacco and General Motors. He was once considered the kind of centrist Republican that Democrats love, until he took over the Whitewater investigation and proceeded to squeeze witnesses and pursue leads with a zeal that troubled even people who lost...
...such issues as abortion, the rights of the accused and affirmative action. All the same, when a seat opened up on the Supreme Court in 1990, Starr was too well known as an opponent of abortion rights, and yet too moderate for the Republican right wing, for the cautious Bush White House to place him on the court. The prize went to David Souter. After Bush lost to Clinton, Starr joined the Washington office of the high-powered Chicago-based law firm Kirkland & Ellis. If he had missed the chance for the Supreme Court seat, he would at least have...