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...cars: most vehicles now have air bags and anti-lock brakes. Autos are harder to steal too--newer models have security systems that disable the engine when you take the key out. Stiffened penalties have curbed drunk driving. And baby boomers have moved into the demographic sweet spot for cautious driving. Motorists ages 40 to 59 have a lower rate of traffic deaths than any other group...
...here goes" kind of week for Dole, who had sent another torpedo into the conventional wisdom that she is far too cautious to do or say anything bold and original. That came the night before, at a big G.O.P. wingding, when she surprised even some of her top supporters by laying out a gun-control agenda that calls for full federal funding for instant background checks, outlawing all cop-killer bullets, upholding the assault-weapons ban and mandating child-safety locks. The speech received at least one hearty boo, and when it was over, the applause was spotty...
...fact was the focus of more attention at the air base than even Defense Secretary Cohen or Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton. "Thank you for making us proud of what we do," said a serviceman. But a more senior official, standing back in the crowd, gave a cautious critique: "We're being pressed to become the world's policeman, but we don't have the will or the military structure to do it right. Nor do we have a rational method of picking where we'll get involved. Give us a clear job to do and we can usually...
Albright does not have Kissinger's ability (or desire) to conceptualize overarching strategic frameworks and analyze how an action in one corner can ripple around the world as through a spider web. Nor does she excel at the cautious contingency planning that marked, and sometimes paralyzed, many of the corporate lawyers--Cyrus Vance, James Baker, Warren Christopher--who once held her job. Consequently, she urged intervention in Kosovo without worrying too much about either the geostrategic ramifications (how it would affect Russia, China, Macedonia, Greece, et al.) or about game planning all the contingencies (how to cope with a horrific...
...good Star Wars fan knows the story of how George Lucas was turned down by countless studios before he was able to convince 20th Century Fox to take on what was, by almost all accounts, an outrageous project. And who could blame all those cautious studio executives who passed on the chance to produce what would become the highest grossing movie the world had ever seen...