Word: cautiousness
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...last minute. Harvard’s various schools should never have to guess whether there will be an increase in their funding or whether the payout will remain stagnant. This is not to say that the University should spend money with reckless abandon; Harvard’s cautious approach has yielded impressive results in terms of sheer wealth generation. It seems reasonable, though, that with an endowment as massive, successful and well-managed as Harvard’s, the University should be able to offer consistent and measured increases in payouts every year...
McGraw is not totally risk averse--a neutral mention of abortion on his 2002 hit Red Ragtop was a country watershed--but in general he is too cautious and too willing to compromise his individual perspective to be considered a significant artist. It's a shame, given that his biography is rich territory: he was born dirt poor, he discovered as an adolescent that his father was the late big-league pitcher Tug McGraw, and he was rejected by almost every record label for being too ordinary before becoming a star when Curb Records finally took a chance...
...wasn’t playing cautious but I knew it was a potential problem. It was in the back of my mind,” Copple said. “I was hoping it wouldn’t be a problem and could wait till the end of the season to get it fixed...
...obvious opportunity for online-music sales. A survey by Japan's Nikkei Business Daily found that 47% of respondents would buy music from iTunes if they could. But Sony, the obvious candidate for market leadership (after all, Sony invented the portable music market with the Walkman), has been cautious. The company recently introduced a pair of updated hard drive portable players, the Network Walkman and Vaio Pocket, and earlier this year Sony Music Entertainment relaunched the Mora online store it runs with other labels, which currently offers 70,000 songs for about $1.44 each (iTunes sells most songs...
...leader's elusiveness. So while the boss has "the entire organization at his disposal" to run Cosa Nostra's economic activities, including construction contracting, drug trafficking and extortion, Prestipino explains that only a handful of confidants know Provenzano's whereabouts at any given time. "He is extremely cautious," Prestipino says. "So we try to pull the ground out from under his feet. And of course, hope for a false step." Provenzano has rarely put a foot wrong in more than 50 years with the Mafia. As a poor teenager in Corleone in central Sicily, he latched onto Michele Navarra...