Word: circumspection
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...debate whether the first period was needlessly excessive. Commentators on television round-tables ponder whether or not there was a "rush to judgement." Between advertisements for cat food and diarrhea medications, the assembled high priests of the journalism profession solemnly lament their dismal performance and vow to be more circumspect the next time they haul somebody's sex life into public view...
Those close to Steve Forbes know only this about his spiritual life: he's an Episcopalian and attends St. John on the Mountain in Bernardsville, N.J. Perhaps you'd be circumspect about your faith too if your father had made you wear a kilt to Sunday services as a kid. "He hadn't given an awful lot of thought to these kinds of issues until he started running for President last year," says Forbes supporter Gordon Humphrey. Nor had Forbes spent much time communing with the more demonstrative branches of Protestantism. "As an Episcopalian, he never rubbed shoulders too much...
...community spirit via quasi-totalitraian measure that destroy the very liberties that are the ends of our society. How in practice we can strike a balance between the two is as yet unclear to me, but to begin with, liberals must combine a vehement attention to rights with a circumspect view of the needs of civil society. Our unyielding emphasis on individual freedom must somehow come to terms with responsiblities, or we may not make it to the next dawn's early light...
...company eight years ago, she has followed the traditional path from analyst to fund manager. Today she manages the Trend Fund, the same one her father ran after he joined the company in 1957. (The fund's return is 8.7% so far this year.) Predictably, she is as circumspect about her future as is Johnson. "I have no role that has been predetermined," she says...
...grand master was more circumspect. "She was nothing to explode in the air about," Karolyi says. Dimitry, undeterred, moved the family close to the gym. During the next 18 months, he commuted weekly to Florida to run a used-car lot. When he finally found a job in Houston, he laid down only one condition: "I have to travel for Dominique's meets...