Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration officials have good reason to be publicly cautious in their prognoses. For one thing, breakthroughs in the past have faded embarrassingly quickly in the face of continued negotiating deadlocks. For another, Washington does not want to appear too eager for an agreement lest that weaken its bargaining position with Moscow and later make it more difficult to win ratification in the Senate. As it is, Senate approval is far from assured...
That go-slow posture should come as no surprise. Having nibbled away at some of the broad doctrines of the Warren era, the Burger Court seems to have entered a period of cautious weighing and adjusting. Uncertain and divided on a whole range of difficult questions, the court will have plenty of opportunity for fine-line drawing in future terms...
...principle of "affirmative action," the system by which the Government is pressuring U.S. universities, corporations and other institutions to provide more jobs and better pay for millions of blacks, other minorities and women. Despite a flurry of protest demonstrations by militants, most observers praised the court for a cautious but astute effort at reconciling conflicting forces?but they also foresaw many future conflicts in the actual carrying out of the court's new edict...
...diplomats were surprised by that cautious reaction. Said one U.S. officer in Moscow: "There has been an amazing lack of vigor, courage and activity on the part of the business community in backing up Crawford...
...intense interest in the series did not mean, however, that the heavens FIFA commands were without clouds. Much of the time the soccer was crabbed, cautious and defensive until Erny Brandts did his walkabout and the Argentines went wild. A meeting of the College of Cardinals produces far more pugnacity than was seen in the early-round matches...