Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many issues, Weinberger is regarded as the leading hard-liner in the Reagan Administration. He has been skeptical even about pursuing nuclear arms-control negotiations with the Soviets. Yet last week's speech, which he wrote himself and delivered to the National Press Club, was prudent. And the precision of his manifesto was welcome from an Administration that has seemed disconcertingly vague about its foreign policy goals. Weinberger cleared the speech in advance with the White House and got approval from the National Security Council. A few hours before he delivered it, he gave a copy to Secretary...
...Washington, Moscow and European capitals last week, the general reaction was the same, a kind of prudent hopefulness, positive but well short of jubilant. The distance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had become vast and worrisome. Even an uncertain plan to re-engage is better than hostile solitude. "The main thing is that the talks are taking place," sums up Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary. "But don't let's have any terrifically high expectations of sudden change. It's going to be a very long business. It will require...
...Some of the authors' imaginings come appealingly to life. The air in the Territories is so clear, for instance, that if someone pulls a radish out of the ground, it can be smelled half a mile away. Clownish, somewhat dim-witted werewolves loyally guard flocks of cow/sheep, but prudent householders stay out of their way when the moon is full...
...numerous members of the community who have expressed their reasons for advocating divestment. He ignores the fact that municipalities such as Cambridge. Boston and New York, states such as Massachusetts, and other institutions such as University of Michigan have declared that divestment is not only a prudent but an ethically necessary course to take. We question Bok's commitment to informed debate and well-reasoned argument; we question his belief in discourse in light of his obvious disbelief in listening...
...would, however, suggest that perhaps it would be prudent to be more cautious and accurate when matters of fact are allegedly stated. Approximately two-thirds of the way through the editorial there is the following statement: "It also appears that Harvard may have siphoned income from the account. While the Black Rock Trust grew from 1.2 million in 1940 to 2.49 million in 1983 under Harvard stewardship the rest of the endowment increased more than eight times to 2.5 billion." The fact is that the Black Rock Forest Trust Fund is part of the Harvard endowment, and has been managed...