Word: prudent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, small cracks are showing in the President's facade. Confidants say he privately sounds "wounded" by a public that takes for granted his leadership in the Gulf War and his prudent oversight of communism's collapse. Sometimes this petulant attitude slips out in public, as when Bush recently observed that despite his signing a historic nuclear weapons treaty with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the public remains fixated on the economy and asks, "What have you done for us lately...
From the beginning, Perot chafed at the arrangement. Rollins, in charge of day-to-day operations, drafted an expansive budget of $150 million, including a direct-mail campaign and broadcast advertising. But Perot's two longtime business associates, Tom Luce and Morton Meyerson, decided that it would be prudent if they, rather than Rollins and Jordan, presented the spending plan to Perot. Luce feared a volcanic reaction from the boss and wanted to spare the new recruits...
...regional balance, foreign-policy experience and aged wisdom. The fact is, the only problem Clinton had to avoid was a post-selection examination that could find his No. 2 wanting. With Gore, the chances for such a disaster are minimized. He is, as the ticket's pollster says, a "prudent" choice. Having run for President himself four years ago, Gore comes to the '92 race pre-scrutinized. He could turn people off (he can bore and appear obsequious, and sanctimony is often his stock in trade), but Al Gore will not embarrass...
International diplomacy is supposed to be President Bush's strength. But after Japan, and getting gassed in Panama last week, what could go wrong next? Might be prudent to avoid the Ring of Fire...
...helplessly as their troubled inner- city area, whose law-abiding residents had been pleading for better police protection for years, was pillaged and set aflame by hordes of looters. By all indications, the rioting could have been contained with proper planning, commitment of resources, leadership and an early and prudent show of force by the Los Angeles police. All these ingredients were tragically lacking in Los Angeles. The performance of the L.A.P.D. during the crucial early moments of the uprising is an object lesson in how not to deal with civil disorders. Key mistakes...