Word: cautiousness
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...time. "We will thoroughly examine her record to ensure she understands that the role of a jurist in our democracy is to apply the law evenhandedly, despite their own feelings or personal or political preferences," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that could be read as cautious or ominous. "Our Democratic colleagues have often remarked that the Senate is not a 'rubber stamp.' Accordingly, we trust they will ensure there is adequate time to prepare for this nomination, and a full and fair opportunity to question the nominee and debate her qualifications...
...summit, the rich nations, wrangled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, decided to triple the IMF's resources to $750 billion. After nearly a decade on the sidelines, it was suddenly a player again. "The IMF is back," crowed IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Boutros-Ghali is more cautious: "Now we need to make sure the money shows up, that it wasn't just pious words." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...banks. What's more, they argue that even in good times the public bank exams make sense because they could sound the early-warning sign that was missing two years ago. A regular public vetting of the big banks' laundry might also cause some financial firms to be more cautious in the future about the types of loans they make...
...from his travels to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories in that his presence did not detonate any religious or political dynamite. With the quest for peace between Israelis and Palestinians at a dangerous impasse, just making the Middle East trip - against the counsel of some of his more cautious advisers - would seem to carry some bankable positive weight for the Pontiff...
...certification,” says Miller. “In order for it to be an official trip, at least one leader needs to have [that] training or higher. Some of the leaders are wilderness First Responders or wilderness EMTs.Though the leader training may strike some as overly cautious, the Outing Club has learned that it is better to be safe than sorry. During spring break of 2006, a canoe trip in Charleston, South Carolina put the Outing Club to the test. Two students flipped over in rough waves and were carried away from the rest of the group...