Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national service plan is not a jobs bill. While the money would create temporary jobs, much of it will go to students who, after their college education, are not likely to find themselves unemployed. Funding a moral obligation may not be a prudent investment for the government with so many other bills to pay, even if it creates jobs on the side. And while it should be a goal to diversify the armed forces, using this as an argument makes national service seem like a backdoor draft...
...that the Administration was also considering an increase in the number of U.S. military "trainers," now limited to 55. The aide also hinted that the roles of the trainers might be enlarged. The subject remains highly sensitive on Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress find it politically prudent to recall that U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War began with only a handful of advisers. Soon after reporters began filing their stories from Air Force One, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed that the Defense Department was considering lifting the ceiling on trainers. But White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry...
...worst drought in 40 years and by bush fires that swept through southeastern Australia three weeks ago, claiming 72 lives and destroying 2,500 homes. Further reports of sharply declining productivity in a wide variety of consumer goods reached the candidates as they campaigned. But where Fraser advocated prudent economic conservatism, Hawke called for an ambitious $2.65 billion public works program designed to create half a million jobs during the next three years. He also promised to increase pensions and reduce taxes for low-and middle-income wage earners...
...easy and formulaic dismissal of Washington as more of the same, that is certainly a posibility. But because of his record of reform and the recent decay of the machine, it would seem more prudent to beed Chicago press sage Mike Royko's injunction for the standard of innocent until proven guilty: "Until he fouls up, give him a chance." Mark Csikszentmihalyi...
...Marcus Cunliffe points out that Washington was a good man but not a saint, a competent soldier but not great, thoughtful but not brilliant like Alexander Hamilton. He was a respectable administrator but certainly not a genius. All this and more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much that not even his British enemies had a derogatory nickname for him during the war. He could strip off his coat and help the field hands, but he had no very close...