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...London Times called the budget "more valorous than prudent" and added: "It is certainly incautious, and we fear that it is ill-judged." To most political observers, it seemed to be a stopgap tactic for holding consumer support while the government tries to make its stern economic controls work. As one economist put it, "The budget is really a piece of fiscal sugar to sweeten public acceptance of Stage...
This winter Annemarie has not only made the competition nervous, but she has nearly demolished it. Her friends call her style "brutal." She stays in her patented crouch through her entire run. More prudent racers straighten up from time to time-at the cost of a fraction of a second-as emergencies dictate. Proell disdains such caution and her total abandon has already won her two World Cups. She is assured of a third before the spring thaw. This season she won all eight women's downhill races, becoming the world's first skier-male or female...
...reflect the thoughts and words of ten decades of Crimson editors, moreover, these pages tell the story of change. The articles reprinted here are indicative of periods, of concerns and priorities, of generations of students at Harvard and elsewhere. The Crimson has not always chosen the wisest or most prudent editorial stances. But the one connecting fibre is that the words printed herein represented an independent voice. Harvard needs such a voice, and always will. Now, as always. The Crimson endeavors to pursue truth. We aim at those unlikely journalistic goals of fairness and objectivity. We challenge all sides...
...pessimistic report after another on man's despoliation of his home planet. Last week in Washington, D.C., at the A.A.A.S.'S 139th meeting, scientists were again subjected to dissent and despair, but this time there was also welcome relief in the form of an eloquent defense of prudent technological growth...
...pushing Nixon into a tougher bargaining stance. Washington feels that the momentum of negotiations and worldwide hopes for an end to the bloodshed is too strong for Thieu to resist. But Nixon also made it clear that the U.S. would not be blocked from a settlement that it considered prudent and workable by any intransigence on Thieu's part. Thus the only Nixon-Thieu meeting contemplated would be as a final gesture of cooperation in which both would approve a settlement after the outline is firmed up in Paris...