Word: caveats
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...George Bush's approval ratings were at historic highs, to Bill Clinton's election to the recent Republican landslide. Evidence indicates that we are operating under 30-week or possibly even 30-day cycles. Thus the odds are virtually even that November 1996 will hit an activist phase. A caveat: the Leap Year Day in February 1996 may invalidate these calculations...
...this caveat aside, The Crimson's conflict of interest policy is quite strong. Since the aim of news writing is to be objective, people involved in situations, or directly affected by their outcome, should not write about them...
...Warren Christopher. Friends and associates of the Secretary of State are quietly discussing his possible departure, hints of which can be found in last week's statements from the Middle East. During Christopher's latest diplomatic shuttle between Israel and Syria, the guarded descriptions of progress contained a caveat. Both Jerusalem and Damascus, U.S. officials said, want Christopher even more involved as the "honest broker" in their negotiations. "Now, what if that's ratchetted up?" asks a Clinton adviser. "What if a comprehensive peace is seen to require Chris' full-time attention and he becomes our special Middle East envoy...
Even Roach of Morgan Stanley thinks a "productivity-led recovery" could bring back the days when a rising tide really did lift all the boats. But he adds a strong caveat: "My darkest fear is of macho corporate managers who will slash and burn, and will not make a true commitment for the longer haul to expand their market share through judicious rebuilding. Then we will have hollow industries that will undermine our competitive advantage over the long haul, and that will be an unmitigated disaster for growth and jobs." Downsizing was and is a painful necessity, but bosses need...
...smoldering debate over whether black students are getting fair treatment. Indeed, the 1974 case that is at the root of the controversy was supposedly settled 10 years ago when the Cincinnati board of education agreed to a laundry list of remedies to desegregate the schools. But there was one caveat: After seven years, the courts would review compliance. In 1991 a judge found that the schools remained deficient in three areas, including discipline, and ordered a study, which confirmed that black males were twice as likely to be suspended. Thus the controversy and the CPS offer of statistical monitoring...