Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater than the total amount that is imported (in 1977 the U.S. is expected to import $41 billion more in petroleum products than it exports). Carter also called for more development of coal in "an environmentally sound way" and further research on solar energy. On atomic energy, he was cautious. He asked for "strict safeguards on necessary atomic energy production." Later in February, he pledged, he will ask Congress for help in combining the some 50 federal agencies involved in energy. "Utility companies," he concluded, "must promote conservation and not consumption. Oil and natural gas companies must be honest with...
...have to be extremely cautious not to give people the impression that we are on the brink of a solution, but I do believe this year will give us an opportunity for another attempt to establish a just and durable peace...
...world of Hellenism." His alienation from the real city is most visible in the erotic poetry which sprang from his own experiences--those of a homosexual necessarily but bitterly shackled by the conventions of his milieu. The evolution of these poems from composition to publication reveals a progression from cautious ambiguity to an increasingly more explicit statement of the poet's passions. Such an advancement mirrored Cavafy's developing belief in honest acceptance of one's passions and surroundings, in bowing to the inevitability of circumstance and human limitations. This belief became the sole moral yardstick by which he could...
Richard called Smith's decision "tragic and fateful." The Briton had reached cautious accord with leaders of the five black "frontline" countries surrounding Rhodesia-Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. He had also talked with four black nationalist leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of the hard-line Patriotic Front, and the more moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Only Smith, said Richard, had balked completely. "Smith wants to settle on his own terms. That's not settlement by negotiation. That's settlement by ultimatum...
...have given the author a sensible attitude toward her work. She has avoided the dangers of early acclaim that might have thrust her into the footsteps of such belles of Southern lettres as Flannery O'Conner and Eudora Welty. Instead, Grau has usually played to her strength - a cautious application of talent to the Southern traditions and people she knows best...