Word: cautiously
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...part of it too, albeit indirectly. Pension funds, foundations and endowments--cautious money--flooded into hedge funds after stocks tanked following the late-'90s boom. The institutions were seeking an edge. They didn't get much of one for long: the industry's last year of 20%-plus returns was 2003, according to Hedge Fund Research, and since then funds have on average returned an unflashy 9% a year, partly because the torrent of new money makes markets more efficient...
...made] him central to the implementation of the plan on the ground.”Still, Ury seems relatively unfazed.“Because of the very delicate political situation in Syria right now, and in the aftermath of the war in Lebanon, the Syrian government has been very cautious,” he says. “But they were very warm in their welcome of us as tourists...I’m confident that as they get to know the project and they get to know us they will be ready to move forward.” Some...
...Abizaid did make a startling admission, apparently for the first time, that he agreed with then-Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki that there should have been more U.S. troops in Iraq in 2003. Abizaid, who has been increasingly criticized within the military as too cautious and too political, spent the rest of the session defending his view that no more U.S. troops are needed in Iraq now. Abizaid offered nothing new despite the fact that the American view of Iraq has changed dramatically with the election results in the past week. The senators, searching for political cover, needed...
...Even after midnight, when the Secretary of State's office reported that McCaskill had started to pull ahead, the mood at McCaskill's campaign party remained cautious and tense. "You've got to remember that most of us have been in that exact same room, with those exact same people, and we've suffered some crushing defeats," Zimmerman said. "Even people who rationally knew Claire had won weren't going to let themselves believe until they saw her up on that stage, giving her acceptance speech." Which she did, flanked by her family, a few minutes after...
...ends the chapter by describing the aftermath of a young couple’s assassination in this way: “So the National Park Service concluded that a deranged shooter had picked a target at random…People who used the path were urged to be cautious.” Only a government bureaucrat would consider this gripping...