Word: circumspection
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Myself, I make $8,400 a year and in exchange I am expected to be loyal, obedient, circumspect and addicted to unpaid overtime. A former boss of mine told me, in a moment of undue confidence, that a divorced woman with a child is the ideal employee; she can't quit and she can't complain...
...groups of militant Hoa Hao Buddhists, disgruntled peasants and bitter former soldiers of the fallen Thieu regime in Saigon have established strongholds in these areas. Around Dalat, for instance, up to 2,000 veterans sporadically battle the forces of the new rulers. The fighting has been serious enough for circumspect Hanoi newspapers to admit that "veterans do not hesitate to open fire on security forces...
Widespread Practice. The award seems likely only to make Wall Street's employee rustlers a bit more circumspect, not to stop their activities. Last week brought new indications of how widespread the practice is. Just as the N.Y.S.E. award was being announced, Manhattan-based Bache Halsey Stuart Inc. sued Loeb Rhoades & Co. Inc. for $5 million damages, charging that Loeb Rhoades had pirated 17 salespeople out of its New Orleans and Orlando, Fla., offices. Bache also sued its former managers of those offices for conspiring with Loeb Rhoades to purloin trade secrets, and asked the New York courts...
...rogue cop a long speech in which he reveals how the job has brutalized him. If it is no easier to like him as a result, at least one can begin to understand what happened to him. In short, Widerberg is a moviemaker rather like his detective hero-patient, circumspect, careful not to let his opinions get in the way of solving the puzzles his job presents to him. It is a pleasure to watch both of them at work...
...Clarissa, his second wife (he had in 1950 divorced his first wife, Beatrice, by whom he had two children: Simon, who was killed in World War II, and Nicholas, who is now a merchant banker). He raised purebred Herefords, dabbled with watercolors, reread Proust and Joyce and wrote his circumspect but stylish memoirs; the last of four volumes, titled Another World: 1897-1917, was published last spring. Through a television series in which he recounted his life and career, Eden became a new presence to a generation of Britons who knew none of the world events he shaped and suffered...