Word: cautiously
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...there were glimpses as well of the cautious and deliberative management style that has been both her strength and her weakness since she became Governor in 2003. Beginning the previous Friday, when the forecasts still had it that the hurricane was more likely to hit the Florida Panhandle, the Governor had followed her responsibilities under the state's disaster plan to the letter. She proclaimed a state of emergency; put the National Guard on alert; arranged to have traffic patterns on outgoing roadways reconfigured; made sure the parishes that were not at risk would have shelters and supplies for people...
...examination of his every argument and memo and decision has revealed a more complex character than initial reports promised. The 60,000 pages of documents from his early years as a hotshot Reagan Administration lawyer that have since been made public show an ambitious twentysomething with an attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when he referred to the Girl Scout who wanted to sell a box of cookies to Ronald Reagan as "the little huckster." And sometimes possessed of a tart sense of humor, as when Roberts replied to a professor anxious about being blacklisted because...
...respondents in a recent online poll, 67% said they wouldn't recall Davis now if given the chance. This most cautious of Democrats these days seems candid and downright personable. "I do feel liberated," Davis told TIME. But while he credits his positive poll numbers in part to "buyer's remorse" for electing Schwarzenegger, he adds that his smile reflects a feeling of redemption rather than revenge. Now a rainmaker at a Los Angeles law firm, Davis, 62, says, "I don't take any comfort in Arnold's difficulties. I've seen that movie." Still, some political pals are pushing...
...wisdom of pinning so much hope on the idea that bringing democracy to societies that have never known it is the best strategy for making Americans safer. Rice has never been patient: as an aide to Brent Scowcroft in the first Bush Administration, she chafed at Scowcroft's cautious steps to encourage democratization in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But the East European model can't easily be replicated in the Islamic world. From the Palestinian territories to Pakistan--and even in Iraq--holding free elections now would probably produce governments that are even less amenable...
...Despite vowing that it wouldn't offer Kim sweeteners to return to the bargaining table, Washington has reacted with cautious praise?in Seoul last week, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the South Korean plan "a very creative idea." It's not clear, though, what penalties Kim might face if he doesn't take the deal, or pushes for more baubles, such as new power plants. Rice asserted that the North must make "a strategic decision" to give up its nuclear weapons. But, asks Balbina Hwang, a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., "What...