Word: prudent
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...recent months a humiliating lesson has come to households, boardrooms and town halls across the country: derivatives can turn around and bite even those who think they know something about prudent investing. And this drubbing from derivatives is sure to continue. "The gunslingers may be lying low, but they haven't hung up their guns," declares Representative Ed Markey of Massachusetts. As chairman of a House subcommittee that oversees financial institutions, Markey has put forward a bill that would increase federal supervision of the largely unregulated derivatives dealers. "This wasn't a Maalox moment," he says of the recent...
...that policy aimed at reducing risks to human health frequently appears to make little economic or scientific sense. Even some environmentalists concur that decisions to rip asbestos out of school buildings were probably ill considered. In many cases, sealing the dangerous fibers in place would have provided a more prudent and less costly remedy. Similarly, while no one denies that homes with high levels of radon pose a health hazard requiring prompt attention, what about houses with much lower levels? Is it reasonable to urge that they too be radonproofed if there is no certainty that a danger exists...
...That was prudent, given the information that had already begun leaking out. Although James has no criminal convictions, he has a history of bad debts, and civil court judgments against him have reportedly reached $60,000. Klawock's only federally recognized Tlingit organization, the Klawock Cooperative Association, sent a letter disassociating itself from the case. Sociologists were up in arms. Says Sasha Hughes, author of two books on Native Alaskan heritage and a longtime James observer: "Banishment is not part of Tlingit culture. Rudy is a con man. He just makes it up as he goes along." Adds Aaron Isaacs...
Rents will also not necessarily risedramatically. "There are a lot of tenants," shesaid. "We have to be prudent and responsiblelandlords...
Britton died last Friday with his liver whole. Moments after he and the elderly couple acting as his volunteer guards arrived in the parking lot of the Ladies Clinic of Pensacola, a gunman ran up to the driver's side of their blue pickup truck. The killer was no prudent sharpshooter: he got quite close with a 12-gauge shotgun and blasted the faces of the two men with round after round of buckshot...