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...Dobson believes he and his listeners need to know whether presidential candidates have been faithful in their marriages. And he wants to give candidates a chance publicly to confess their sins by being their official confessor. Gingrich, for his part, thinks it prudent to accommodate Dobson. He chooses to acknowledge behavior that was confirmed by his subsequent divorce and marriage to the woman in question. It must have occurred to Gingrich that in another era an intelligent and proud man like him would not have dignified such a question with an answer, let alone consent ahead of time to have...
...doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make up five percent of the world’s population, we consume 30 percent of its resources. It’s simply not possible or prudent for the “developing” world to copy the American way of life—the world simply doesn’t have enough gasoline, plastic wrap, or Prozac...
...transport analyst Tim Marshall says, it "would be prudent to target the SME and leisure market rather than the global corporates," arguing that network depth, breadth and frequency are important to corporate flyers. "The presence of EOS may actually stimulate the business-class leisure market," says Marshall...
...President was the one who was wrong," she told me, smacking the table at which we sat. "The President led people to believe that he would be prudent in the exercise of the authority he was given, and that proved not to be true. Keeping the focus on the President and the Vice President, about what they did and didn't do, the mistakes they made, is really where it needs to be, because he's the only one who can reverse course...
...CLINTON: Well, I've said over and over again, knowing what I know now, I would never have voted for it. The President was the one who was wrong. The President led people to believe that he would be prudent in the exercise of the authority he was given. That proved not to be true. I think keeping the focus on the President and Vice President about what they did and didn't do, the mistakes they made, is really where it needs to be, because he's the only one who can reverse course...