Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame, the Speaker was a chastened man coping with the fact that he has become a liability to the party he helped transform. He arrived with his hair still wet from his morning swim, and his mood during the hour-and-a-half session was cautious; he remembered to rein himself in. In fact, he joked about how careful he has to be these days, quickly and comically correcting himself (changing "grotesque" to "sad," for instance, to describe his recent media coverage, and calling psychologist turned politician Lenora Fulani first a "nut candidate," then the more...
...tend to others' emotional needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is rewarded too: by subtle ensemble acting, writing that understands the void that tactful conversation fills, direction (by Roger Michell and Ang Lee, respectively) that finds the hidden hungers of the cautious soul. Honorable mention to Clueless, the Emma of Beverly Hills High...
...always looking for the leading person so you might say we are more risk-averse than some institutions," says Carol J. Thompson, associate dean for academic affairs in the FAS. "Maybe one of the reasons we are very cautious is that our faculty generally spend 35 years here...
...mandatory seat belt laws) or when the law interferes with someone who may be under a temporary loss of control (such as stopping someone from jumping off the top of their building). A ban on divorce passes neither of these tests. As a society, we should be very cautious about enacting laws which attempt to engineer the way a group of people live when this group does not want engineering. Such laws can easily (and there are innumerable precedents in history) degenerate into a tyranny of the majority by those who believe everyone's morality fell...
...positive studies are not sufficient evidence to formulate public policy," he said. "We should be somewhat concerned, but we have to be cautious about what we do about...