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...financial wizard in the stock market,” Gabrielse says. “[The Corporation] has to be prudent in averaging out the hills and the valleys. I haven’t tried to second guess them because, quite frankly, they’re better at it than...
Freshman year, a whole slew of other colleges offered significant financial aid reforms. Harvard didn’t, at least not until more than a year had passed. Bleeding-heart Neil wanted to follow suit, but Jeremy who is prudent forbade it. Neil Rudenstine could do nothing. What’s a president supposed to do in that kind of situation? And so once again, Neil was torn between corporate necessities and his native impulses. He understood his position and that event, like so many others, must have acted like a wedge between the human being behind that gaunt physique...
...Something that’s risky is not always imprudent. These investments are certainly prudent,” Manning says...
...just had to be prudent," Kane says on his ability to remain safe. Richard S. Welch '51, Kane's friend and classmate, also recruited from Harvard for the CIA, was assassinated in Athens...
...That was a rock-bottom standard, since the image of the Bronco II continued to worsen. In June 1989 a Consumer Reports article titled "How Safe Is the Bronco II?" rated its handling as poor in a test that simulated rapid lane changes. The Consumers Union publication advised "prudent buyers" to steer clear of it. According to an original analysis prepared for TIME by University of Michigan statistician Hans Joksch, an expert in automotive statistics, the Explorer has had approximately the same rate of fatal rollovers as the Bronco...