Word: prudent
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...vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
...naive in this age of payback politics to presume that a President's nomination will be approved, barring a serious impediment. But when Brown appeared before the committee last fall and no Republican Senators asked any questions, he thought it would be prudent to put his house in Berkeley, California, up for sale in January. Despite the sluggish market, a buyer miraculously appeared. Brown negotiated a four-month leaseback, but the family had to move out before confirmation. They no longer have meals together in their eat-in kitchen because there is no kitchen. School tuition is paid...
...alumnus of The Crimson editorial board, I am astonished and appalled by Stephen E. Frank's recent column, "Hitler's Russian Protege" (April 7, 1994), declaring that the Russian anti-Semitic politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky ought to be assassinated. Frank's shaded declaration that it would "be more prudent to nip [Zhirinovsky's] aspirations in the bud" is as sleazy a call for murder as one is likely to find in a publication that has pretensions to respectability. (And I wonder: after Zhirinovsky, whose is the next name on Frank's `hit list'--and the next?) Indeed, I am even more...
...someone's murder and those who do the deed. Perhaps I don't see it Frank's way because I lead an Expository Writing study group on the life and career of John F. Kennedy '40--and so I know that in 1963 someone decided it would "be more prudent to nip his aspirations in the bud," too. But I don't think so. What I do think is that Frank's column is the ugliest violation of what is supposed to be the bedrock rule of membership in an academic community: a commitment to civil discourse. And I also...
...last thing researchers want their finding to do is provoke a backlash against fruit juices. Certainly, older children can still indulge their habit. All that is required is common sense. "Do everything in moderation," Lifshitz advises. "Even the most healthful, prudent act, done in excess, can be harmful...