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Clearly some form of federal overseeing of charities would benefit not only contributors but also the charities themselves, especially the many effectively performing services. Donors deserve help in distinguishing prudent from slovenly charitable operations. "When you're running up very high costs," says Mondale, "there is a good argument that you are not a charity but a public nuisance...
Kamin said that a critical look at the studies that conclude that intelligence is inheritable "reveals nothing that would lead a reasonable prudent man" to that conclusion...
With a per capita annual income estimated at $125, Nigeria needs all the oil and gas revenues it can get. But Gowon has no intention of rushing the oil bonanza. To husband reserves, he is limiting production increases to the 1% per month maximum he decided was prudent long before the energy crunch. Moreover, the oil revenues give Gowon a strong hand in keeping the twelve states in line. By doling out profits to all, he keeps a firm grip on the purse strings and the pattern of economic growth...
Professors Oscar Handlin and Donald Fleming sign a petition insisting that Derek Bok is, in fact, neither of them. "Whoever he is, he is a gosh-darned prudent administrator," Fleming says, "but whoever Derek C. Bok may be, he is certainly...
...always a prudent coward, I decided not to, and so, lived the life of a grade-grubber for the duration of my tenure. I attended Junior Classical League meetings religiously, defended the benefits of Latin publicly to all in-coming freshmen, and every year led the songs at the Latin Banquet, held in the school library on the Ides of March, togas and stolas required...