Word: cautiousness
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...Coleman found the lure of sudden stardom thrilling and discomfiting. "My wife was managing an MRI facility and making good money in Dallas," he says. "We're not kids. Moving to Nashville, making a record--there's a lot of uncertainty. I was excited but cautious." Whether some of that caution crept into Loco Motive is hard to know, but anyone expecting controversy will be surprised. Troy calls himself "the last of the Brohicans" on the Kid Rock-ish Beast on the Mic and asks the ladies to "get low" and "make it clap" on the willfully stupid (and thoroughly...
...History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelynn M. Hammonds, Higgins Professor of Natural Science Barbara J. Grosz, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Drew Gilpin Faust, and five other professors—“there was a range of optimism, from cautious optimism to very strong optimism...
...simply don't know if it's helping people, doing nothing or killing them," says Brian Dickie, research director at the British MND Association, which, like its Australian counterpart, urges sufferers to be cautious. "People are going over there and having God knows what put into them, and then being packed off home with no follow-up." Willie and Rein have received hundreds of messages from well-wishers but had no contact with Huang's team since their return, except for an mri scan sent to them with an e-mail in Mandarin...
...Congress. A group of House Republicans and Democrats, national-security hawks and environmentalists, has been meeting quietly for the past month, trying to gin up bipartisan alternative-energy legislation. A leader of the group, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey, has met with Speaker Dennis Hastert, who expressed cautious enthusiasm about the idea. "Look, the Federal Government has subsidized every major transportation advance in our nation's history," Saxton told me, "and this is one with national-security implications, given our dependence on oil from the Middle East." Political implications too: an ambitious energy-independence campaign would divert attention from...
...courts for decades when King and others began their activism. It had won substantial victories. But not until King and others began to use radical tactics did the country begin to focus on civil rights. The liberal clergy King chastised in his letter wanted integration, but they wanted a cautious approach. The problem, as King points out, is that when nobody directly demands changed policies, officials feel free to continually put off doing the right thing. It is always easy to ignore the problems with the status quo; even if it’s deeply flawed, we?...