Word: caveats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when students consider joining an outside health club, the message is caveat emptor: ready to prey on the discontent of Harvard students, the health club industry casts its lures and students are sometimes blinded to the fine print by the glare of bright machinery...
Contractually quite flexible, Le Pli carries its own sort of caveat: it is only for those who are lithe of thigh and stout of wallet. The most expensive health club in Cambridge, it has both the most beautiful facilities and clientele...
...their antecedents have. Manek assiduously instructs Feroza on how to avoid the difficulties he encountered in coming to the U.S. after she decides to extend her three-month holiday to a four-year college education. He accompanies his instruction on opening milk cartons or tamper-proof vials with the caveat, "Remember this: If you have to struggle to open something in America, you're doing it wrong. They've made everything easy. That's how a free economy works." Manek changes his name to Mike and even asks his wife to use his new name in public. The reader understands...
CANDIDATE CLINTON SAW NO AMBIGUITY LAST AUGUST: "History has shown that you can't allow the mass extermination of people and just sit by and watch it happen." President Clinton added a caveat last week: The U.S. will not act alone in Bosnia. "America is ready to do its part," Clinton said. "But Europe must be willing to act with us. We must go forward together." The impulse is noble, but the effect could be pernicious. Multilateralism, the collective action by peace-loving nations against malefactors, can either empower or paralyze. It can confer a legitimacy that unilateral efforts might...
...caveat. Despite its chewy theme, Brainfood is in many respects user- hostile. The author is director of research at the National Institute for Medical Research in Paris; his chapters on nutritional basics bristle with such forbidding terms as neuropeptides, mitochondria and oligodendrocyte. Nonetheless, those who can surmount this barbed-wire fence of technical jargon may find other parts of Bourre's book no less pleasing than -- to cite one of his own examples -- an omelet with freshly picked Bordeaux cepe mushrooms...