Word: caveat
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...interracial communication. "In South Africa, it's racism that's reinforced by ignorance and the fact that when you're born into a racist society, you don't have a chance to make your own judgements," he said. Denis Beckett, editor of the new liberal monthly Frontline, offers a caveat. White South Africans are in his view no more racist that whites elsewhere. "When I go abroad, half the people I meet say things like, "Glad to see you're keeping the niggers in line,'" he said...
...That caveat is echoed with some passion in Seoul and Jakarta. The South Koreans and most Southeast Asians are glad to see the Japanese openly debating the expansion of forces to defend their home islands and territorial waters, but no one in East Asia, including the Japanese, wants the U.S. to prod Japan into taking responsibility for other countries as well. On this subject, Ambassador Hahm of South Korea clenches his fist, purses his lips and raises his voice: "There is a suspicion throughout the area that the U.S. may be tempted to strengthen Japan as a surrogate. That plays...
...Caveat. An Al-verb, a victim of the general's verification program, to which resistance is verboten for even the most insolent little noun. As in: "I'll have to caveat my response, Senator...
...energy study should reap many millions of dollars in savings in the next few decades. Financially, the University can afford to finance future deficit budgets by announcing more years of 13.2-per-cent tuition increases. Ethically, Mom, Dad, and Johnny deserve more than a term bill stamped with caveat emptor...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration announced that it is taking steps to help prevent abuse of the popular pills. Henceforth, all the tranquilizer makers will have to include this caveat in their advertising of such products in medical publications and other informational materials: "Anxiety or tension associated with the stress of everyday life usually does not require treatment with an [antianxiety] drug...