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There is no doubt that prayer relieves illness for some. However, since many of the most frequent causes of premature death are avoidable, the more prudent individual will prefer prevention to prayer. PAUL D. GEIGER Cumming, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1996 | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...tidal wave of Noachian-flood proportions would have deluged every province of the planet. The survivors, should there have been any, wouldn't know what had happened. Perhaps they would refer to an act of God that cleansed the planet of a sordid past. Thank God there are prudent souls working to protect us from such an event. ROBERT D. BROWN Lincoln, Nebraska Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...manner in which our current Ph.D.s are faring in the job market does not tell us much about what we should do about graduate admissions," Shepsle says. "I think the general feeling is that the academic marketplace is contracting a bit and we ought to be a little prudent but not overreact...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Graduate Students Face Unfavorable Job Prospects | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...writing class open to (but not required of) students who had tested out of English A (the precursor of Expos). I had added this course on the last possible day, after steadily declining grades (49, 48 and 47 percent) on successive weekly quizzes had convinced me it would be prudent to drop introductory chemistry. I had 3,000 words to make up, but this seemed a small price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning the Material That Won't Be Tested | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

When Warren Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., in 1965, the stock was worth less than $20. With prudent investments in blue-chip companies such as Coca-Cola and Capital Cities/ABC, Buffett drove BH into the low thirties--$30,000, that is. By refusing to split the stock into smaller units, Buffett effectively kept speculators at bay, until a few cagey money managers figured out that they could form investment trusts with Berkshire Hathaway shares in their portfolios and then sell fractional units at affordable prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch, May 20, 1996 | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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