Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly some form of federal overseeing of charities would benefit not only contributors but also the charities themselves, especially the many effectively performing services. Donors deserve help in distinguishing prudent from slovenly charitable operations. "When you're running up very high costs," says Mondale, "there is a good argument that you are not a charity but a public nuisance...
...Public funding for general congressional and presidential elections, preferably in a mix with private contributions. The Senate bill may be overambitious in proposing public financing for primary elections as well; the program will be difficult enough to administer if limited to general elections, and it may be prudent to try it one step at a time...
Kamin said that a critical look at the studies that conclude that intelligence is inheritable "reveals nothing that would lead a reasonable prudent man" to that conclusion...
With a per capita annual income estimated at $125, Nigeria needs all the oil and gas revenues it can get. But Gowon has no intention of rushing the oil bonanza. To husband reserves, he is limiting production increases to the 1% per month maximum he decided was prudent long before the energy crunch. Moreover, the oil revenues give Gowon a strong hand in keeping the twelve states in line. By doling out profits to all, he keeps a firm grip on the purse strings and the pattern of economic growth...
Professors Oscar Handlin and Donald Fleming sign a petition insisting that Derek Bok is, in fact, neither of them. "Whoever he is, he is a gosh-darned prudent administrator," Fleming says, "but whoever Derek C. Bok may be, he is certainly...