Word: cautionings
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...three days of marathon talks that ran for a total of 23 hours in West Berlin, the Big Four ambassadors (U.S., France, Britain and Soviet Union) were tantalizingly close to a broad agreement that would resolve important aspects of the long unsettled status of the isolated city. Washington officials caution that "while we are fighting over relatively few words, they're very important words." The negotiations will resume briefly this week, and could result in final agreement then or when they are reconvened in mid-September...
...when I came back I knew where to put my feet down with sufficient caution." The first thing to explode was, of all things, his bat. In his first start, Blue, one of the few switch-hitting pitchers in baseball, cracked a three-run homer to help the A's to a 7-4 win. In his second outing, he hurled a one-hitter against Kansas City. His fourth time out he stunned the hard-hitting Minnesota Twins with a no-hitter. The Blue Blazer...
...August 1951, the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy pointed his accusing finger at Davies and at last succeeded in getting him condemned-not for disloyalty but for "disregard of proper forbearance and caution in making known his dissents" from existing policy. Davies refused to resign; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles fired...
...Mirroring the consumer's caution, businessmen are also keeping a tight rein on expenditures. "The projection for plant and equipment spending for the year has even been revised downward," says Economist Edward Boss of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust. "That is unusual for a recovery period." Spending for inventories is also sparing. Total business inventories in May rose about $630 million, roughly the same as in April. The cost of borrowing is rising; last week the Federal Reserve Board lifted its discount rate to banks by 1% to 5%. Many forecasters now believe that...
...given command of the Profaci family. At 40 he was the youngest of the Mafia chieftains. Until then, his virtue had been his caution. Except for law-enforcement agencies, hardly anyone knew who he was. Though he had been arrested a dozen times on minor charges, he had been convicted only three times. He was fined twice for gambling, and he was jailed for 30 days in 1966 because he refused to tell a grand jury what he knew about mob infiltration of legitimate business. His bigger operations were largely untouched by the law or publicity: gambling in Brooklyn...