They learned painfully over decades that a small miscalculation, even an incautious word, could translate into disfiguring trauma or death to oneself or one's family.

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Because the ECB has had one eye on the exit since the start of the crisis it has earned plaudits from those who think the Federal Reserve has been incautious.

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Threat, Noncompliance: U.S. leaders should avoid promoting through summitry or incautious public statements the impression that the Soviet threat has already significantly diminished or disappeared or that the Soviet Union has now ended its pattern of noncompliance with international agreements.

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Perhaps the worst offender is the bank's president, Wim Duisenberg, whose incautious remarks have, more than once, sent the euro plunging on the foreign-exchange markets and this at a time when the bank was trying to talk the fledgling currency up.

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The, that's right in essence, the Palace were enormously alarmed that, that you know, Sophie had sounded off in this incautious way that she had and so an arrangement was made that she would provide the News of the World with a startling, scorching interview which she did and all was fine.

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The intensifying crisis in Russia had a curious effect on the progress of what amounts substantially to a blank check to the Yeltsin government: The very uncertainty concerning the prospects for real reform in the former Soviet Union was repeatedly cited to justify an urgent, incautious and undisciplined disbursement of these funds.

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Well the talk of the Countess of Wessex' incautious remarks has been an enormous story two weekends running and as we saw just then last Sunday we had an authorised interview in the News of the World while other papers carried a string of embarrassing stories about what Sophie Rhys Jones was reputed to have told the undercover reporter.

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