Word: caveat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall Street philosophy of caveat emptor, that every man's losses are his own misfortune, received an important qualification last week. The New York Stock Exchange decided to make good to 20,000 hapless investors the mistake of one of the members of its club. After four feverish days of consultation, Exchange officials and a group of top brokers agreed to set up a $12 million fund to pay back almost immediately the losses suffered by the customers of Ira Haupt & Co., which was suspended from trading after its biggest commodity customer went bankrupt, leaving the firm with debts...
...Caveat to Cheaters. But what might be the effect upon today's U.S. nuclear superiority of Russian treaty cheating? McNamara argued that the U.S. could almost certainly detect any Russian nuclear tests of a size worth conducting. He conceded that the Soviets might get away with a test in deep space-20 million or more miles away from the earth -but such tests "would involve years of preparation, plus several months to a year of actual execution, and they could cost hundreds of millions of dollars per successful experiment." Anyway, he said, the U.S. plans to launch within...
Muttering caveat emptor over and over to drown out my conscience, we heartlessly sublet our superdeluxe "Something East" and quietly left town...
DAVI President Finn offered one caveat: this awesome equipment must not fall into the hands of any one private institution, e.g., the Ford Foundation. Said he: "The American people don't elect representatives to the Ford Foundation...
...cosmonauts, who, before takeoff, arranged to blow up dumps of extra nuclear fuel after first warning the surrounding inhabitants" to flee. Those who looked back (e.g., Lot's wife) "were blinded and perished." A little nervously, the Literary Gazette prefaced this saucer-eyed silliness with the caveat that it "stands on the borderline of daring scientific guesswork and scientific fantasy...