Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abruptly summoned to a meeting with Saddam in late July as he threatened war, she told him that the U.S. "took no position" on the substance of his border dispute with Kuwait but also "that we can never excuse settlement of disputes by other than peaceful means." The same cautious message was conveyed to Saddam in a letter from the President and in public statements. Officials maintain the signal was meant to stop any aggression, but by then Saddam needed a stick with the heft of a two-by-four: a direct warning of U.S. military intervention. Even so bald...
...speak up and blow the whistle. In another sense, it's a tricky and dangerous time, in that all this ferment over women's causes could be pushed out of public discourse by the media. We also have this economic situation which has the effect of making people more cautious...
Although the memorandum was issued before the debate began, it declared the following: "Tonight was a clear win, a big win for the President...Bill Clinton came in a cautious and weak third place." Then after the debate, to confirm the conspiracy, the scripted words spilled obediently from the lips of Bush campaign advisers. All night they cawed in unison: "It was a big win for the President." "Clinton was cautious and weak," they astutely explained to whomever would listen...
Knowles notes that the deficit fell from $9.8 million in 1990-91 to $7.5 million last year, giving him "cautious optimism" that he can erase the deficit entirely in a few years...
...dean may want to be more cautious than optimistic. Throwing out the low interest rates and low inflation that Knowles admits helped cut the deficit, the Faculty's real "savings" last year may not have amounted to much more than $1 million...