Word: circumspection
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...what middle-class, educated parents had taught their children about American society and what young people actually encountered when they began reading newspapers and travelling the country. Students discovered racism instead of equality; systematic poverty instead of opportunity; Cold War brinkmanship instead of magnanimous world leadership. Only the most circumspect and thoughtful of the early activists were able to preserve their justifiable discontent in its original form. Most either drifted away from the student movement after repeated failures or joined the rush toward destructive pseudo-revolutionary militarism inspired by Vietnam and the draft...
...rushed to press, first in The New Yorker (the magazine which is so circumspect it begins its baseball coverage in Novembers--seven weeks ago and now in book form (Knopf even managed to squeeze in a three-and-a-half page postscript dated September 21 on the refugee camp massacre in a frenzy of greedy haste. One expects this sort of thing from the cheapest of publishers, those who catalogue the incineration of every organ of every boy of the men who died in the Iranian hostage rescue mission for consumption three days after the fact. Not two firms with...
...among patients who were poor candidates for the drug. If it had been promoted less zealously, perhaps fewer of these patients would have urged their doctors to prescribe it. Predicts Industry Watcher Michael Smith of Pharmaceutical Data Services, Inc.: "The fallout from Oraflex is that companies will become more circumspect...
Mexico's refinancing troubles will undoubtedly result in some abrupt changes in global banking's freewheeling ways. Financiers, who within the past year have already become wary of making too many foreign loans, are now likely to become much more circumspect. Says Hans Wuttke, the executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank subsidiary: "The pace of lending has already slowed down...
...that," he says now). But in a Newsweek column, Will last month denounced "Haigism" as softness in foreign affairs. He knew who was finally responsible: "Reagan has had less impact on foreign policy than any modern President (Ford excepted)." When it came to the President personally, however, Will was circumspect: "Reagan has not devoted the energy necessary to imposing his perceptions." Take that...