Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shelter Rattling? Millions would die in a thermonuclear war, but millions of others might be saved by a prudent shelter program. Since no one knows where the enemy would drop his bombs, cheap fallout shelters are a modest insurance for everyone, even in big metropolitan targets. Shelters affording some blast and fire protection are not much more expensive than fallout shelters, and could also be a measure of insurance. Community shelters, to which the Government has now switched its emphasis, are probably more effective than others, in terms of equity as well as effort...
...fiscal year beginning July 1-more than any other President before him in peacetime. He also expected that the U.S. Government would collect more of them-93 billion-than ever before. Congressmen and commentators agreed that the budget balance was "precarious''-which was not only a prudent acknowledgment that federal spending tends to exceed plans, but a succinct observation on the insignificance of nearly $500 million...
...McCormack's more or less automatic succession to Rayburn's chair-nor was there any marked enthusiasm about it. Some liberal columnists and editorial writers grumbled, but the young liberals of the House, much closer in "style" to their President than to their new Speaker, were too prudent to voice their misgivings publicly...
...Khrushchev continued to stage nuclear tests in the atmosphere, President Kennedy responded by announcing that the U.S. would resume its own tests underground. "We must now take those steps which prudent men find essential," he declared. "We have no other choice in fulfillment of the responsibilities of the United States Government to its own citizens and to the security of other free nations." Directed by AEC Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg, underground tests in Nevada were scheduled to start within a few days...
...such circumstances. East Germans had the prudent alternatives of flight or putting up with it. The uncertain factor was whether, as the tension over Berlin increased, prudence would prevail...