Word: prudent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's easy. "Prudent," laughs Wernher P. "I think the Bible helped me in that category...
...makes it impossible to lock the Yard," said Assistant Dean of Students Ellen H. Towne. "But we've noticed a decline in the level of activity on Friday evening and Saturday morning so providing added security and police coverage from Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon is a reasonable and prudent plan...
...maximization of these returns within prudent investment guidelines is the focus of cash and investment management. Generally speaking, Treasury is able to invest the company's funds aggressively because of Disney's healthy financial standing and its strong appeal on Wall Street. Managing a short-term portfolio of considerable size, Treasury plays an active role in the equity, fixed-income and other financial markets. While outperforming the rate of return of most market indices, Treasury also trades in derivative financial instruments. Despite the growing efficiency of worldwide markets, Treasury has in the past year still found means of arbitraging...
Nothing better illustrates an incumbent's ability to control the debate than Bush's new view of America's nuclear defense posture. In last week's speech, Bush offered a vision at once radical and prudent. No matter that the specifics have been proposed for years; until now no one in a position to take them up has done so. In the process, Bush is likely to trump the opposition's most promising edge: its contention that the world has changed so fundamentally that military expenditures should be redirected to home-front priorities. In the short term -- and perhaps...
...finishing touches are completed, about $20 million. It will also, when the switch is pulled, put on quite a show: 147 giant beams projecting a cross of light 3,000 ft. into the Caribbean night. The lighthouse comes equipped with its own power generators, which was a prudent idea on someone's part. The Dominican Republic's electricity system has virtually collapsed for lack of funding. Like the rest of the country, the neighborhoods surrounding this soaring beacon are routinely blacked out 20 hours...