Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good So Long." At that, Dillon may have been too cautious-if current statistics are an accurate standard. Personal income has risen more than $4 billion so far this year to a record $452 billion-and, rather than putting the money away, consumers have spent 94% of it. A big beneficiary has been the auto industry. As of April, sales of new cars were running at an annual rate of 7,500,000. This should give Detroit its second 7,000,000-year (previously reached only in 1955) and follows 1962's impressive 6,900,000 sales. Exults...
...fight for civil rights; but he must recognize that, as matters stand, the government has been left far behind, and is barely considered a participant in the fight. The Negroes are evidently willing to take physical risks of great seriousness rather than move towards equality at the President's cautious pace. The events in Birmingham make it clear that the President's must take political risks of a similar magnitude. He must make a major public address, on television or before Congress, identifying his position with King's. At the very least, he should demand that Birmingham's police refrain...
Catholic scholars are cautious in using this method, but they generally accept its basic assumptions: that the Gospels are redactions of sayings and narratives that cannot be properly interpreted without reference to the oral tradition that lies behind them...
After four days of bloodshed, the rioting finally petered out, and cautious United Nations troops, who had not dared intervene while the fighting was at its height, moved in and totted up the frightful cost. The toll: at least 70 dead, and scores injured...
...There'll be no abrupt change in our outlook," said Noyes at the spacious desk that cautious, pipe-smoking Ben McKelway used to occupy, but some major tinkering is already under way. Noyes is looking for skilled interpretive writers to back up Political Writer Mary McGrory and Pentagon Reporter Richard Fryklund (TIME, April 12). With only one foreign correspondent-Newbold Noyes's Paris-based brother Crosby-the Star cannot hope to match the 14 foreign correspondents who write for the Post, but the new editor plans to develop a team of "regional specialists." To match the Post...