Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that underwent leveraged buyouts have failed. But Wilbur Ross, managing director of Wall Street's Rothschild Inc., warns: "The real test will come the next time you have a combination of high interest rates and a bad economic environment. When that happens, we'll see just how prudent some of these deals really were." As every sensible investor should know, a formula designed to create huge profits in good times can eventually lead to enormous losses in bad times...
...totally convinced that I am going to have a lot to do with the future of my country," he says. "But I don't want people to say, 'What does this guy know? He's been singing.' " Getting a master's is probably a prudent first step on a very extravagant course, but anyone who has listened to Blades sing his songs in his streetwise tenor would have no doubt that he knows plenty already...
...turn paved the way for discussion of the U.S. budget deficit. Later, U.S. Treasury Secretary Regan refused to acknowledge a link between the deficit and high interest rates. The outcome in the communiqué was a declaration that high interest rates could threaten recovery, and a call for "prudent monetary and budgetary policies...
...going to be like a typical trust officer in a bank who says, 'No decision is the best decision--don't ever take a risk.' We are in the business of making money for Harvard, and therefore we are risk takers, but we are risk takers within an overall prudent environment...
...That prudent environment derives from a few simple principles: first, that the endowment income is "to equally benefit today's generation of students as well as tomorrow's. I can't make you guys so rich that the guys who follow you 10 years from now don't have anything," Cabot says...