Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find a "rabbi" (mentor in B-school lingo), become his slave until a better mentor comes along, become his slave, etc. The concept of a personal life, or fun, does not seem to part of Stockman's mental vocabulary; only the ceaseless immersion in whichever intellectual orthodoxies seemed most prudent at the time...
This is a comforting thought, and the moviegoer feels proud and almost parental for having seen these beguiling youngsters through their difficult teenage years. Good sense suggests, however, that it is prudent not to get too comfortable. Even now, with the battered fortress of adulthood in grave need of repairs, a fresh assault is gathering. Sure as Sony makes videotape, unknown young directors with the artistic sensibility of not-yet-great white sharks are prowling the Taco Bells. Movie-struck, semi-pubescent punks with their cigarette packs turned up in the sleeves of their T shirts are spotting them...
...States can be improved in the face of the hostility of the American intellectual and academic elite, they should let us know what they are. If not, opposition to academic assistance to the CIA amounts to condemning American intelligence analysis to a lower level of sophistication than is either prudent, safe or necessary. If The Crimson wants to enhance the divorce between scholarship and the CIA, it should also realize that such a divorce has serious and harmful consequences for the country as a whole. The Safran affair and to a lesser degree the Betts and Huntington issue indicate again...
When the system malfunctions, a thoughtful individual, Geltz shows, can put it back on the right track. And that's what's so threatening to the Navy: that an individual can make a more prudent decision than the entire chain of command and can prevent the military and State Department from getting away with whatever they choose...
...convinced that the misunderstanding would be worked out, asked Begin to submit a revised version the following day--after the Camp David accords were to be signed. When the new letter arrived, it was exactly the same as the draft that Carter had rejected the previous day. "Careful, prudent negotiators would have insisted on seeing the final draft instead of relying on hope," Quandt writes. "As a result, the Americans made their most serious technical mistake...