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Word: prudently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three who did comment were cautionary but essentially upbeat. "There are enormous problems," says Bush. "Problems of judgment, problems of management. But I don't see any insurmountable ones that a prudent person can't handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: Advice from the Old Boys | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...disposal during the convention a communications system that not only could monitor other candidates' communication systems, but could also jam them if necessary. The system was devised with the aid and complicity of Jim Gammill '75, Carter convention co-ordinator, and killed at the last minute by more prudent advisers. But even this story partially was reported last November in the Times, and Reeves simply doesn't add much more. This means that some of the most interesting reading comes in the footnotes to Convention, where Reeves mentions the rumors that some New York congressmen voted not to override President...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: By Friday I Had Learned | 2/17/1977 | See Source »

...aggression. Such a suggestion, especially considering the vast weight of evidence that backs it up, does not seem particularly far-fetched, nor does it seem in any degree racist. However, if Professor Wilson's views are indeed as absurd as Ms. Rosenthal seems to think, it would be more prudent on her part to allow his hypotheses to fall victim to the truly scientific method of test by experiment, rather than the politically-motivated haranguing of a nutritionist whose command of the topic is perhaps open to some doubt. Stephen Schumacher '80 James Armstrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unjustified Attack | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...will have 30 attorneys, 50 investigators, 40 to 50 researchers, security men, assorted administrators and 30 or so secretaries. It will probably have a budget of more than $6.5 million a year. It will also have a life expectancy of at least two years and at most ... well, no prudent actuary would dare to predict how long it may last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sprague's Spraw | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...Prudent Course. Faced with these incriminating statistics and lacking any evidence of an impending swine-flu outbreak, federal officials took what Dr. Theodore Cooper, HEW assistant secretary for health, last week described as "the only prudent course of action": they immediately halted the program until they could prove or disprove the link between the vaccine and the paralysis. The investigation, which has already determined that no single batch of vaccine can be blamed, will take at least a month. If the vaccine is cleared, Cooper says, he will recommend resumption of the program-both to provide protection against swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Roll Down Your Sleeves, America! | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

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