Word: caveat
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CANDIDATE CLINTON SAW NO AMBIGUITY LAST AUGUST: "History has shown that you can't allow the mass extermination of people and just sit by and watch it happen." President Clinton added a caveat last week: The U.S. will not act alone in Bosnia. "America is ready to do its part," Clinton said. "But Europe must be willing to act with us. We must go forward together." The impulse is noble, but the effect could be pernicious. Multilateralism, the collective action by peace-loving nations against malefactors, can either empower or paralyze. It can confer a legitimacy that unilateral efforts might...
...caveat. Despite its chewy theme, Brainfood is in many respects user- hostile. The author is director of research at the National Institute for Medical Research in Paris; his chapters on nutritional basics bristle with such forbidding terms as neuropeptides, mitochondria and oligodendrocyte. Nonetheless, those who can surmount this barbed-wire fence of technical jargon may find other parts of Bourre's book no less pleasing than -- to cite one of his own examples -- an omelet with freshly picked Bordeaux cepe mushrooms...
...does Bill Clinton. Judging from the mood among voters in Montgomery County, most Americans are quite willing to make the sacrifices that Clinton is calling for, especially if the money is earmarked to pay off the deficit, improve schools or create jobs. But there is one consistent caveat: nobody wants to go first...
...employees' education with a caveat that they need to pay us back with service," O'Brien said...
...think so. And those students who (like me) will attend tonight's event -all, no doubt, with good intentions should keep that giant caveat in mind...