Word: caveat
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...policy does not represent a departure from past practice, as the National Association of College Admissions Counselors voted last fall to allow high school students to apply to both an Early Decision and an Early Action school with the caveat that the Early Decision application “supersedes” all others. McGrath Lewis said she does not “think there was any support for [the] idea” of permitting students accepted under Early Decision elsewhere to enroll...
...Almost by nature, this wealth aggrandizement breeds corruption in three forms - financial, political and philosophical. One caveat: The considerable parallels between contemporary excesses and those of seventy years ago don't warrant any firm conclusion about the next one, two or five years. History frequently repeats, but only in broad outline. Besides, it's often contended that the Great Depression wasn't overcome until the pre-World War II production and mobilization of 1938 and 1939. The terrorist attack of 9/11 may have already pushed the United States into another wartime stimulus situation, although the new U.S. vulnerability could also...
...committee then selects the 48 remaining at-large teams, and finally, the committee seeds the four teams in each region. An important caveat to the seeding procedures is that at least one team from each of the eight regions hosts a regional...
...most good, and will likely be the outcome (at least in the case of auditing and consulting firms, since those companies have the taint of Enron). Such will likely not be the case for Wall Street analysts and bankers, since those firms are less exposed and can always cry caveat emptor, effectively saying that investors must take responsibility for their own losses. On that note, they have a point, but the presumed skepticism of his readers does not excuse Blodget of fraud in publicly praising stocks that he privately felt unworthy. Whatever the outcome of the ongoing investigations, the reforms...
...could not in good conscience present my case without discussing the one caveat that any novice Pass/Failer must heed: YOU STILL HAVE TO PASS. It’s so tempting to fall into that glorious mindset of gradelessness, but never forget that though a C-, D or even D- won’t hurt, you still need to get something other than the dreaded E. Maybe skim a few of the books. Look over a few problems. It’s a cakewalk, but it’s a walk nevertheless...