Word: caution
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Congressional leaders, who have threatened tough trade sanctions against Japan unless it opens its markets further, greeted the Japanese pledges with practiced caution. Said Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "Put me down as a skeptic who has seen too many agreements in which the results don't match the rhetoric." Many lawmakers are withholding judgment until they can see signs that the agreement is benefiting U.S. companies. Observed Senator John Danforth of Missouri: "In any commercial agreement with Japan, seeing is believing...
...homeless, critics warn, may not be of much use in identifying either their numbers or their needs. Too few counters had too little time to cover too much territory. Among places they skipped: subway tunnels, rooftops, and the many dangerous corners where the homeless may hide. Their caution was well advised. Shots rang out as census takers approached one building in Brooklyn, and two counters were robbed at knife-point in Florida...
...invariable caution raised about allowing young players onto the professional tour is that they may be subject to premature burnout, either physical or mental. The prime examples cited are Austin, who twice won the U.S. Open before departing at 21, and Andrea Jaeger, who made the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon before packing it in at 19. Yet the counterexamples of enduring grit can be equally persuasive: Evert, who began playing at the top level at 16, kept going until her September retirement at the age of 34; her equally precocious rival, Martina Navratilova, 33, is still playing...
...think we have to resolve the issue of preserving the submitter's integrity versus the editing process," said the magazine's fiction editor, Eisa Davis '92. But her caution does not temper her enthusiasm for the magazine's success...
...next day, and no other news organization got even a shred of confirmation that resignation was imminent. But the furor demonstrated CNN's growing impact as the world's most widely circulated TV news network. It also raised questions about whether, given that global clout, CNN exercised due journalistic caution when dealing with a potential bombshell...