Word: prudent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report also questions the risk involved in investing the working capital of the University and asks how prudent it is to have 47 percent of the center's budget based upon this income source...
...beautiful aerial shots of virginal countryside, infidelity, political corruption, sibling rivalry, alienation, death, etc. It has the necessary passionate love scene, the anguished drunk lover's "let's destroy the car" scene, the rushing to the airport to find your lover's already flown away scene and a prudent number of idyllic walks by the sea shore...
...liberty is making you crazy. The Rockies spin out of the ground like the spurs of a boot, and a herd of antelope is grazing along a bend in the Missouri River. Willie Nelson and Ray Charles come on the radio to sing Seven Spanish Angels, and it seems prudent, if not reasonable, to nose up to 100, 105, 110. At 112, you can almost see the seven angels. It's 85 miles from Great Falls to Helena, with a lot of curves (it'd help if they had signs saying CURVE AHEAD, SLOW TO 90), and you cover...
Butte legislator Joe Quilici, one of the sponsors, has all but conceded. And Bob Gibson has editorialized against a new speed limit in the Billings Gazette. "We already have one that says there are times when 35 might be prudent and times when 90 is prudent," he says. What more could a man ask? (At night, the limit is 65.) Governor Marc Racicot, for one, wants a new speed limit, but doesn't expect it to happen anytime soon. Montanans are not nut-case antigovernment types, he says, a tad sensitive about the militia thing that captured so many headlines...
...brag about at the coffee shop if you caught someone going 100, but now you see it every day," says Sergeant Larry Strickland, who pulled a guy over at 105 only to hear him gripe, "No way, officer. I was only doing 96." The problem with "reasonable and prudent," troopers argue, is that there aren't three fuzzier words in U.S. lawbooks...