Word: cautiously
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...Here's the basic story... Born in Gujurat, the son of a school teacher, Desai goes abroad as a teenager (heading for Istanbul, not Aden, where Dhirubhai landed) to learn business. He returns a decade later to start a textile company, in partnership with a more cautious cousin who later leaves in a dispute over our hero's risky ways. He switches from cotton to polyester and makes his fortune, creating India's biggest company, in part by encouraging the rising middle class to invest in it (tens of thousands flock to his shareholder meetings). He suffers a stroke that...
...move in for the kill. Approval for the raid came from Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, which had held power for all of 11 days at the time of the Jan. 8 strike. "It's one of those places where even the State Department, which is usually very cautious about us acting, said, Hey, go ahead," said the Pentagon official...
...embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are believed to hiding, is made easier by the fact that a central state authority has scarcely existed in the East African nation for more than a decade. "It's one of those places where even the State Department, which is usually very cautious about us acting, in this case, said, hey, go ahead," said the Pentagon official. The three al-Qaeda operatives were the target of the gunship raid in southern Somalia reported Monday, and one Pentagon official Tuesday morning said it appeared likely the strike had killed at least...
...first two years, I was on a learning curve. The next three years were purely invigorating. I was enjoying the job but still amazed that I had it. Then September 11 happened, and it was a turning point. The show changed dramatically. We're a lot more cautious about how we handle the news. With every event we ask, Is it terrorism...
...region. This advisor said that Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the current national security adviser and former longtime Saudi ambassador in Washington, as well as his father (who is also defense minister) Prince Sultan, and others in the so-called Sudeiri branch of the royal family have long favored cautious, but somewhat more aggressive methods to deal with Iran than has the al-Faisal branch, represented by Prince Turki and his brother, the foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal. However, another well-placed Saudi source disputes this notion, claiming that the Prince would never have resigned over any such differing views...