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When George Bush was First Speaker, people worried that his own peculiar patterns of speech would spread beyond the Beltway. After all, the leader of the free world regularly uncorked beauties like "wouldn't be prudent" and "not gonna...
...while the settlement was enormous, almost all concerned now believe that Healy did the right thing. Even Myers conceded that Healy's judgment in the matter was prudent. And when the councillors demanded greater accountability, Healy said he would present them with biannual reports on all cases pending against the city...
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...