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When the system malfunctions, a thoughtful individual, Geltz shows, can put it back on the right track. And that's what's so threatening to the Navy: that an individual can make a more prudent decision than the entire chain of command and can prevent the military and State Department from getting away with whatever they choose...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Lieutenant Courageous | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

...David Stockton, health service director at UMass-Boston, says it would not be prudent to develop and put into effect specific policies. At the eastern end of Cambridge, MIT spokesmen say the university deals with outbreaks of AIDS on an ad hoc basis...

Author: By Evan M. Supcoff, | Title: THE AIDS THREAT | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...convinced that the misunderstanding would be worked out, asked Begin to submit a revised version the following day--after the Camp David accords were to be signed. When the new letter arrived, it was exactly the same as the draft that Carter had rejected the previous day. "Careful, prudent negotiators would have insisted on seeing the final draft instead of relying on hope," Quandt writes. "As a result, the Americans made their most serious technical mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frailties of Diplomacy | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Epps says that the fund's administrators withheld some funding because "the committeee is prudent, and didnt want to spend it all in one year...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Public Service Fund: How Much is Enough? | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

...bolts that would release the orbiter from its external fuel tank and two booster rockets. Challenger could then loop swiftly back to Kennedy's landing strip. Nonetheless, the crosswinds were too strong for a sure landing. No such emergency had ever been encountered, but once again NASA took the prudent course: yet another delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch the Face of God | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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