Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refreshing to read your appreciation of contemporary design in the new Senate office building. But a ⅞-in. to 2-in. stone veneer that is properly designed and installed is not necessarily inferior construction. It is a prudent and economical use of one of our natural resources...
...military leader, Garcia had been hinting that he would stay on as Defense Minister past his scheduled retirement date in February and that he might even run for President when elections are held in March 1984. Now, his authority shaken, Garcia is expected to resign "after a prudent, face-saving time period," according to one U.S. official...
Even financially prudent countries believed that going into debt made economic sense. They borrowed five-year money on the assumption that their economies would grow faster than oil prices. Since the loans were mainly in dollars and inflation in the U.S. was depressing the value of the dollar, the borrowers believed that they could repay loans taken today with cheaper dollars tomorrow. Everywhere, going into debt was seen as the means to put off painful, belt-tightening decisions...
...Paul Cabot Sr., the former treasurer of Harvard has bequeathed to the University Endowment Fund a significant amount of capital. It is my understanding that after twenty-five years a portion is returned to his heirs. Therefore, I am interested in seeing that the Endowment be utilized in a prudent manner and that the University maintain a credible image with the people of Boston. Based on a recent editorial by Will McDonough of the Boston Globe, I am of the opinion that your decision is not in the best interests of either myself, the University, or the community...
...delay in naming a new President could have been a sign that a Kremlin power struggle was still in progress, but the prevailing view in Moscow was that after moving so smoothly to take control of the party, Andropov thought it more prudent to hold back from assuming the post that Brezhnev himself had waited 13 years to take. Indeed, caution seemed to be the watchword for the Soviets' new leader. Andropov had been expected to put his own stamp on the party hierarchy almost immediately, but he made only two important appointments last week. In his first major...