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Unfortunately, the prospects for traditional safe havens--intermediate- and long-term bonds--are questionable. Higher interest rates and inflation, which may be in the offing, could erode their value. So what's a cautious investor...
...rush to reach a decision on Iraq, his willingness to consider a range of non-military options and his intention to consult with allies over how to pursue his goal of ousting Saddam Hussein's regime. Bush's tone appeared to tilt towards the more cautious approach favored by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Republican foreign policy old guard - the hawks, after all, had been pressing the urgency of immediate U.S. military action, alone if necessary...
...flags emerging? Sure. Last month's 3.6% downturn in housing starts and 11.7% drop in existing-home sales came just after homebuilding companies like Toll Brothers and Ryland saw their stocks sag for the first time in a year. But keep in mind that contractors and banks became more cautious about overbuilding after they were scorched in the savings-and-loan fiasco of the late...
...Akira Miyajima, director general of the Health Ministry's pharmaceutical and food safety bureau, defends his agency's cautious pace. "It's difficult for us to move on just one case," he says. "If we claimed publicly that a product was dangerous before we know for sure, it would cause a lot of trouble for the business and open us up to lawsuits. Given the circumstances, we think we moved with extreme speed...
Twenty years ago, when most current undergraduates were still spitting up their mother’s milk (then still-uncontaminated by transgenic proteins) the relationship of the University to for-profit biotechnology companies was the subject of somber faculty meetings and cautious pronouncements by former University President Derek C. Bok. Although the relationship between the faculty and the biotech industry is less strained than it once was, the problems of actually building companies has not gone away—and those problems illustrate why Summers’ comparison to the electronics industry that grew up around Stanford University...