No wonder that other ministers in the three-party coalition led by Bulent Ecevit, the leftish veteran whose unwise words set off the crisis in February, are feeling twitchy.

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At worst, this was an unwise choice of words that should have been quickly retracted with appropriate apologies.

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Scientists often use "hedge words" because they know it's unwise to put too much stock in the results of a single study, or in mixed results from a group of related studies.

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