Word: cautiousness
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...play well with Netizens. PONDBLOG said, "China is trying to make Internet censorship palatable by putting cute faces on its online thought police." JACKARANDA derided the "Great Firewall of China," deeming the cybercops proof that "the Net can be developed and strangled all at once." But a cautious FREECASHSPACE questioned the upside of "life in a lawless frontier, cyber or otherwise...
...largely as a result of his actions, has steadily gained momentum in recent months.Sharon, like the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was a towering figure in the ongoing strife between Israelis and Palestinians. But while the sentiment after Arafat’s death in November 2004 was one of cautious optimism for a new, more progressive generation of Palestinian leadership, Sharon’s illness may bring the slowly emerging Israeli movement toward peace to a halt. Certainly Sharon, as was Arafat, is as controversial a figure as there is in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sharon?...
That political dynamic has left the nominee's longtime friends and colleagues scratching their heads; the Alito they are reading about bears little resemblance to the conservative yet cautious man they know. "He's careful, he's methodical, he's no maverick or extremist," says Susan L. Sullivan, a legal consultant in San Francisco and self-described liberal Democrat who clerked for Alito in 1990 and '91. Sullivan thinks opponents are "cherry-picking decisions." But that is standard procedure for any confirmation fight. And Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey defense lawyer who has known Alito for decades and likes...
...order to boost growth. "The subdued M&A activity over the past three years had a lot to do with the fragility of ceo confidence," he says. But companies now are looking at the growing number of deals being made "and they're asking: Are we being too cautious?" It remains to be seen whether this round of dealmaking will be more successful than the last one, when many firms got caught up in merger frenzy and ended up overpaying for sometimes dubious assets. Several of Europe's biggest companies succumbed, including German automaker DaimlerChrysler, which only recently unwound...
...other hand, he said, military intervention would not be feasible in North Korea or Iran, but multi-lateral engagement could be effective in Iran. Ignatieff said that Republican foreign policy, focusing on promoting democracy, is better suited to the situation in the Middle East than what he termed the cautious, pragmatic neo-isolationism offered by the Democrats. “The times require real vision in the Middle East,” he said. Flavio S. Campos ’08, a government concentrator, said he appreciated that Ignatieff attempted to find a balanced view of international relations...