Word: cautiousness
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...years since Viet Nam, critics in and out of uniform have repeatedly charged that too many officers have become cautious bureaucrats, adept at Pentagon politics perhaps, but interested more in advancing their careers than in preparing for the brutal exigencies of combat. In an era of unconventional warfare and low-level guerrilla struggles, military reformers sometimes fear that a rigid military-academy mind-set is geared to yesterday's wars of attrition. They question whether West Point is turning out the kind of officers that the nation needs...
...have a familiar, wistful charm. Yet there is a curious defensiveness to his enterprise. Tone seems to have been substituted for emotion; artiness replaces vitality. Doctorow aims for a myth that would link a nation on the edge of war and a boy approaching adolescence, but he is too cautious with his material. He calls the book a novel, yet it has few of the elements usually associated with the form. A melancholy Edgar ticks off his experiences and observations; his mother, brother and aunt make brief personal appearances, while the father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx...
...decision to allow stock trading is part of a plan to reduce the strain on the government's financial resources by raising private capital. But city officials remain cautious. Says Shanghai Spokesman Wang Mingyang: "We will not allow the unproductive speculation and profit making you find in Western stock markets." JAPAN Dangerously Off Course...
Late last week British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald dared to gamble again, this time on a cautious scheme devised to provide the basis for an armistice, if not a settlement, in one of the world's most tenacious conflicts. After a year of discussions between British and Irish negotiators, the two leaders flew to an Anglo-Irish summit at the 188-year-old Hillsborough Castle, twelve miles to the south of Belfast. There they signed an agreement giving the Irish government an official voice in the running of Northern Ireland for the first time...
...This [win] gives us great confidence, but we’re being cautious and trying not to read too much into the margins,” Medaris said. “We all know it’s going to be tough from here...