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...Third World countries, government officials were loath to criticize Citicorp's new hard-nosed policy. Brazil's Finance Minister, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, said he saw the bank's move as a prudent shoring up of its foundations. Said a top Argentine official: "It's the first sign that U.S. ^ banks are prepared to share the burden of the debt crisis." Other foreign moneymen welcomed Citicorp's action because it might mean that all U.S. banks will start treating Third World debt under the same terms as Japanese, West German and Swiss banks, which have already established substantial loss reserves...
...victories have shown increasing receptivity to the Alliance as an alternative to the two main parties. For their part, the Conservatives will run on their record, promoting privatization, austere public spending and a strong nuclear policy. "The issues," says a Thatcher aide, "will be whether the country wants a prudent or imprudent economy, to attack inflation or let it rip, to defend or ignore defending our shores...
WHEN PEOPLE smoke marijuana frequently for many years, the part of their brain that regulates prudent use of the word "dude" is destroyed. It is a common misconception that this form of brain damage is undesirable, and in recent years dangerous campaigns have been undertaken in order to further the theory that marijuana abuse...
Even after 21 years, though, the suffering is not over. Uilleann pipes are fiendishly temperamental; they can break down in dozens of ways without warning, and the prudent performer is always ready for a crisis. "Can anybody help me with this reed?" calls out Sandy Jordan, a Virginia-accented neophyte and the only woman in a room filled with bearded young men. Timothy Britton, a piper, pipemaker and transcendental meditator, comes over to have a look. "The reed's cracked," he says after a quick inspection. "Here, try some Krazy Glue." More trouble from across the room: a cigar-chewing...
...governor's proposed budget increase "might be a little hard to swallow-we may have to take a bit more cautious and prudent approach" to state spending, Finneran said...