Word: caveats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month "royalty" payment. Gray says he has acquired his special love insights after years of counseling couples and hearing anecdotes from his fans at book signings and lectures. But he is not a licensed anything other than driver, to which some mental-health professionals would say, Caveat emptor. Dorothy Cantor, immediate past president of the American Psychological Association, questions the ethics of essentially franchising a form of therapeutic practice. "B.F. Skinner did not say, 'I discovered behaviorism. Now you can have it only if you pay me for it,'" she points...
Doctors are quick to point out that the new diet pills are intended for only the truly obese. That caveat notwithstanding, however, such companies as Hoffmann-La Roche--orlistat's manufacturer--can be forgiven for feeling that they have hit the pharmaceutical jackpot. About 58 million Americans already spend $30 billion annually battling the scale. Even if the new drug doesn't slim waistlines, it will surely fatten someone's bottom line...
...Clinton administration raises China's human rights violations as an apologetic caveat to the "bigger picture" it wants to complete. That is, the U.S. is looking for friendly, constructive engagement with China, but it realizes that the gap between human rights standards is always the missing piece in the relationship...
...hard choice made easier. One of the largest studies yet on treating CLOGGED ARTERIES shows that both balloon angioplasty and more invasive coronary-bypass surgery yield the same quality of life and relief of symptoms for at least five years. One caveat: angioplasty patients may need the procedure repeated...
...people .. who think they can read the minds of the jurors. We'll see what they say." After Baker made his unexpected announcement, Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki adjourned the court for the Thanksgiving holiday and warned the jury not to discuss the case with friends or family. The caveat carried a particularly harsh edge as Fujisaki was forced just two hours before to remove a female juror for allegedly attempting to "contact" an attorney involved in the case. In a scene redolent of the Simpson murder trial, the juror, Ann-Marie Jamison, hired an agent and was booked on a national...