Word: prudent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...venture appears fiscally prudent, theresolution should be passed overwhelmingly, saidcouncil member Hassen A. Sayeed...
...highlights all the more clearly the limits of Russian moderation. It would be foolish, therefore, to continue a purely Russocentric policy that bets the house on the hope that with enough Western coaxing and acquiescence, Russia will turn into a Western democracy, a Cyrillic England. It is far more prudent for the West to demonstrate some firmness, to show we will respect Russia's national interests but not its imperial impulses...
Besides the $183,000 loan from Citizens Bank, Whitewater was started with a down payment of $20,000. But documents establish that the $20,000 was also borrowed, from Union Bank of Little Rock. That raises the question of whether the loan from Citizens was prudent, given that there was no cash down payment. Also, it is not known for sure how much, if any, unborrowed cash the Clintons put into Whitewater...
Inman did not ask Clinton for a specific dollar commitment on the defense budget. Long convinced that the Pentagon procurement process is bloated and slow, Inman strongly believes more prudent spending could achieve savings, and is likely to make procurement reform a major goal. Aspin never really got control over the budget process. Early this year he sent memos to service chiefs telling them to propose $11 billion in reductions in addition to cuts the Bush Administration had already made in the Defense Department for fiscal 1994. But when he introduced his first Pentagon budget in March, it failed...
...issue a flat ban on the raising of funds. Rather, during the life of the Advisory Committee, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, supported by Stager, required that any approaches for money be cleared through the Dean and the Director of the Museum. This was prudent. If the Museum goals were to be redefined in order to focus them on the museum's central tasks in the University, attempts to raise funds should not be sought primarily or wholly for peripheral projects, binding the Museum to continue its lop-sided program indefinitely into the future. Peretz' claim...