Word: prudent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slesin recommends that cellular-telephone owners practice what he calls prudent avoidance. "If you can use an ordinary phone, do." If mobility is required, he suggests either a trunk-mounted car phone or a two-piece cellular model that separates the hand-held receiver from the microwave transmitter. (So-called cordless portable phones use a different frequency and far less power, and they have not been associated with any adverse health effects...
Everyone agrees we have to reduce the deficit (though not necessarily eliminate it -- a healthy, growing enterprise can borrow a little more each year, if it's borrowing to make prudent investments). And everyone is certain that it's someone else's government benefit, not his, that should be eliminated, someone else's taxes that should be raised. ("I will support any measure to trim the deficit," Mac continued, warming to his subject, "so long as it doesn't cost me anything...
...Serbs march into the province of Kosovo, which has an Albanian majority, in an attempt at "ethnic cleansing," says the official, "all bets are off." There is contingency planning to handle that, he confirms, just as there is for almost any possible crisis. But he admits that "a prudent military leadership cannot ignore the possibility this will blow...
...began to moo like a cow every hour on the hour. Others greeted each new program with the sound of breaking glass. Still others spent their spare moments doing celebrity impersonations: Ed McMahon belly laughing, Ronald Reagan mumbling, "Well . . .," George Bush advising that a particular keystroke "wouldn't be prudent" or Star Trek's Dr. McCoy spluttering, "Dammit...
...think it's a prudent move for the club to move into the '90s," Boyle said...