Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the average person will be far too cautious to risk even a single totally worthless encounter, we will see the transformation of the medical clinic into a kind of after-hours meeting place where nervous but lonely people will be able to undergo a battery of health tests and, while awaiting the results, stop by the bar to enjoy a trendy snack with others who may have the same ailment. (I predict that honey-roasted songbirds will be the snack of choice by then because they will turn out to be the last remaining edible creature that is domestically...
...watchers are now concerned that responding to congressional whims will undermine America's biomedical-research structure. "We're seeing the pie being split up into smaller and smaller segments," says David Moore, an official with the Association of American Medical Colleges. "Some of these groups have to be cautious," says John Seffrin, CEO of the American Cancer Society. "They could advocate for major shifts in funding in ways that on the surface makes sense but in the long haul do great violence to the scientific effort. It raises the prospect that these precious resources can be wasted...
...adviser. While that analysis should make Clintonians happy, they nonetheless fret about Perot. Their lead has endured for 11 weeks, allowing them to firm up plans for the climactic weeks while the Bush camp must improvise. For Clinton, new elements add uncertainties that can be dangerous. He has been cautious in recent days, reluctant to take unnecessary risks...
...Christmas. The Clinton camp still only half believes the polls -- both the national ones that mostly give them a double- digit lead and their own state surveys that show them clearly ahead in such G.O.P. bastions as Florida, North Carolina and Kentucky. But along with success has come a cautious reluctance to mess with a winning formula. Nothing angers the Clinton cadre like the charge that they are sitting on their lead. "In the past few weeks, we've gone before the American Legion and the National Guard," says a Clinton insider. "If you saw what we did in Salt...
Despite his professed "cautious optimism," first-year coach Locker must be impressed with his team's initial performances. For Harvard, a middle-rank performer over the past three years, the times, they are a changing...