Word: prudent
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Dampening expectations is prudent and shrewd, but it won't get Clinton off the hook. A sick economy in 1996 will sink him. No one expects miracles, and few will quibble if the economy isn't completely well, but it had better be on the mend and be seen to be. "If 70% of the people still think the country is on the wrong track," says a Clinton aide, "we're dead." While key policy decisions hang unresolved, several structural and personnel determinations are of equal importance. Foremost is the exact role of the Economic Security Council, the new White...
...order to solve the solid waste problem. Each of these guidelines will reduce "virgin" packaging by about 25 percent by 1996 and by 50 percent by 2002. Industries could either reduce packaging, make their packaging recyclable or recycle from already-used packaging. We endorse Question Three as a prudent pro-environment, pro-business answer to a major problem...
When the war ended in 1988, Iraq was the strongest power in the Persian Gulf. Some State Department officials thought tilting back from Baghdad would be prudent. There was ample evidence of brutality by Saddam, including use of poison gas against Iranians during the war and on his own people in the Kurdish city of Halabja, where at least 5,000 civilians were killed. Iraq was also considered a regional bully...
...Boeing issued a service bulletin on 747 models 100, 200 and 300 carrying Pratt & Whitney or Rolls-Royce engines, both of which use the fuse-pin assembly being investigated. The company said it had not located any of the pins from either crash but had still "decided it was prudent to request an inspection." The FAA followed up with a mandatory directive to airlines worldwide requiring them to inspect the pins. The order does not ^ cover the newest 747, model 400, which uses a different engine-attachment system...
...prudent step taken to find out what'sgoing on and if there are grievances out therethat we don't know about," Connors said...