Word: cautiousness
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...first “minors” available to Harvard undergraduates since the inception of the concentrations system in 1919. A new Web site, secondaryfields.fas.harvard.edu, details 49 secondary fields of four to six half-courses now available in 27 departments.Across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, department heads were cautious in forecasting the impact of secondary fields. “No one was able to predict, or pretend to predict, what secondary fields would mean for large departments,” said Nancy L. Rosenblum, the chair of the Government Department, home to the second-largest concentration after economics. Part...
...coast and some domestic help. But he dresses simply, entertains infrequently and does not spend his life being waited on: he often answers his own telephone, greets people at the door, takes their coats and fetches their drinks. He husbands his money for his family, and has grown more cautious over the years. He invested the first $75,000 from Come Blow Your Horn in "cattle that froze to death in Montana." A far bigger error: selling the TV rights to The Odd Couple to Paramount when it made the movie, on the presumption that it would never become...
...Obama either. John Edwards ran strongly among black voters in winning South Carolina in 2004 and his message about reducing poverty and strong rhetoric about pulling troops out from Iraq - a war black voters have consistently opposed at higher percentages than white voters - contrast with Obama's more cautious positioning on that issue. Both Biden and Connecticut's Chris Dodd appeared last week at Martin Luther King Day events in South Carolina...
...find as much originality in Sundance films these days, and for a simple reason. In the beginning, the festival was a home for the homeless, for a rambunctious outlaw take on filmmaking. There was no need to be cautious, since indie films were rarely hits. But as Sundance became the showcase for a form of movie gaining marketplace pull, young directors naturally made films to fit the new mold. Sundance films weren't quirky; they did quirky. Quirky became another genre...
...Still, she enters the race with two assets no other contender can match at this early point: near universal name identification and the best money-raising operation imaginable. Her style on the stump is often dull and cautious, but the flip side of that is she rarely makes mistakes. Nothing beats having actually done it before, and she has had the experience of having lived through two successful presidential campaigns...