Word: cautiously
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...minister Zapatero stopped smiling so much and started governing the country. So far we have been treated to a series of proposals and projects that have been test-marketed. Depending on public reaction, those proposals have been modified, put off or canceled altogether. The talk on the street is cautious, and uncertainty is common: Will we end up as the Disunited States of Spain? Monica Flores Madrid Big and Fuel-Efficient Michael Elliott's welcome feature on our report Winning the Oil Endgame [Sept. 27] had a headline, "Kicking the Big-Car Habit," that did not correctly reflect the thesis...
Tsutsumi sometimes gets it wrong, but that's often, he says, because a designer is too cautious. "Subdued clothes are no good. You need a bit of a cutting edge," he says. For the near future, Tsutsumi is already placing bets. He is excited about a brand called Gilfy, which he describes as surfwear for older teens and young women. "Beach clothes for high schoolers have been popular for a long time," he says, "but Gilfy gives it a more mature spin...
...into Home Depot. Everywhere I go, it's 'Congratulations!'" Bands are eligible for the honor when their first album is at least 25 years old. Dubbed "Toscanini of the turntables," Flash recorded Super Rappin' in 1979. The inductees will probably be announced in December, and this DJ is feeling cautious: "People...
...received in October 2002, which said that Saddam probably possessed weapons of mass destruction. That report was produced after Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to come up with stronger evidence for invading Iraq. The current assessment is more credible. It comes from a cautious, chastened CIA. It was probably George Tenet's last act as CIA director. And it was written well before the current spatter of dreadful developments, including the U.S. military's acknowledgement that there are areas of Iraq, "no go" zones controlled by the insurgents, where we have decided not to fight. My second...
McGraw is not totally risk averse--a neutral mention of abortion on his 2002 hit Red Ragtop was a country watershed--but in general he is too cautious and too willing to compromise his individual perspective to be considered a significant artist. It's a shame, given that his biography is rich territory: he was born dirt poor, he discovered as an adolescent that his father was the late big-league pitcher Tug McGraw, and he was rejected by almost every record label for being too ordinary before becoming a star when Curb Records finally took a chance...