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...nature of the case at hand. Its argument, however, is ill-founded. While complexity and historical import demand a thorough and unbiased weighing of the facts and a fair adjudication the parties conflicting claims, they do not demand such an encumbrance on the court. The appeals court would be prudent to follow the government's more efficient counter-proposal and to proceed as swiftly and judiciously as possible...
...would be prudent for Let's Go to send its writers in pairs on dangerous assignments, even if that means an increased cost for the company. Perhaps a writer will have to be killed on the job before Let's Go will acknowledge how unsafe its current cost-cutting policy...
After originally criticizing the president's recent decision to release 30 million barrels of oil reserve into the home heating oil market as a "dangerous precedent," Summers clarified that he now feels that arrangement was "a prudent and carefully considered step...
...would do more for middle-class people than the other guy's would, and each charging that the other would squander the nation's projected $4.6 trillion budget surplus (see chart). Gore asserted that his tax plan, which could cost up to $620 billion over 10 years, was more prudent and fair than Bush's, which would run $1.6 trillion over nine years. The Bush camp countered that Gore's plan would give no tax relief whatever to millions of Americans and that Gore's other spending proposals would feed the surplus to Washington bureaucrats, whereas Bush wants to "give...
...proposed a tax cut massive enough to impress fiscal conservatives, but one that also included a pro-working family element. Result: a $1.6 trillion promise. The irony: Forbes never caught fire. Bush found himself saddled with a jumbo tax cut against an opponent--McCain--who argued for being fiscally prudent and paying down debt. Bush went on to win the nomination, of course, but he's still lugging around his tax-cut plan. And McCain's criticism stuck...