Word: prudent
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...Buchanan and Forbes vowed to stay in the campaign until the convention.U.S. Seeks Peaceful Resolution In TaiwanTAIPEI, TAIWAN: Even as the United States dispatched two warships to waters near Taiwan, officials predicted the crisis with China would end peacefully. Defense Secretary Perry said the ships were sent as a "prudent, cautionary measure" and he didn't think China would invade the island. China has started eight days of war games in a 6,600-square-mile area which stretches to the mid-point of the Taiwan Strait - an unofficial border between the two sides. Taiwanese officials have heightened military alert...
...sounded like an explosion," said Werner Prudent, who was working at the Seattle's Best Coffee stand at the time of the accident...
...speculation. "We're still in the dark," he says. Meanwhile, officials in Gabon are playing it safe. Last week they warned villagers not to touch dead animals found in the forest or kill any that are "behaving strangely." Until researchers know what they're dealing with, that's probably prudent. As the villagers of Mayibout now know too well, Ebola seldom gives victims a second chance...
Although the recent decision by Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) to convert the Shops by Harvard Yard into University-owned shops and services has raised the hackles of vendors, we support the University's prudent and financially astute move...
Greenspan, however, has motives beyond his own job security for at least partly accommodating White House wishes. The Fed chairman would badly tarnish his reputation as a prudent monetary watchdog if he allowed a recession to develop by keeping interest rates too high for too long. And he can now claim victory in the fight against inflation that he had long rated more important than promoting economic growth. Last year was the fourth in a row in which consumer prices rose by less than 3%, a period of stability unmatched in three decades...