Word: cautiously
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...This cautious leadership style is understandable, but it is unacceptable. With leading scientists calling for the industrialized world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, there is no time for a leading university like Harvard to commit to only short-term plans. We must drive the change that scientists—including many Harvard faculty members—say we need...
...Musharraf faces ever louder calls to depart. And the deeper economic and social problems Pakistan faces will not be easy to solve. But great uncertainty and huge obstacles are familiar to Pakistanis. What is less familiar is the feeling that now lingers in the aftermath of the election: a cautious, soul-gladdening optimism...
With Ral in charge, there's reason for some cautious hope. Compared with the flamboyantly inflexible Fidel, the beardless and bespectacled Ral is an earthier, more pragmatic figure, who has nudged his country's ossified economy toward capitalism and encouraged some discussion about liberalizing its repressive politics. That's quite a turnaround for Ral, who has been Cuba's military chief since Fidel took power in 1959 and was known as his brother's political enforcer, a ruthless ideological hard-liner. But after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba's economic benefactor, it was Ral who persuaded Fidel...
Thatcher's choice of a successor for Carrington reflected her own weakened position within the Conservative Party as a result of the Falklands invasion. He was Francis Pym, 60, the man considered to be Thatcher's most serious rival for the party's leadership and a critic, however cautious, of her stringent economic policies. Wealthy, Eton- and Cambridge-educated and a descendant of the famed Puritan leader of the House of Commons during the 17th century English civil war, Pym had hoped for the Foreign Secretary post after the Conservative election victory of May 1979. Instead he became Defense Secretary...
...faculty are still approaching the creation of new courses with a sense of “cautious optimism,” said James H. Stock, chair of the economics department...