Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national media have eagerly fed upon this reputation, providing Helms with the awed coverage that inflates a politician's ego and image. But the fearsome scion of the New Right has actually proved a far less effective legislator than is commonly assumed. More prudent colleagues from both sides of the aisles have so far blocked his crusade to mold the constitution to his vision of a God-fearing country. His initiative on prayer and abortion have faltered, and the sweeping anti-busing bill he pushed through the Senate has not received a friendly welcome in the House...
...lure still more money. About 130 rich investors put $18 million into a tax-shelter partnership formed by the Wall Street securities firm of Oppenheimer & Co. to finance research and development on the new car. One businessman familiar with that deal says that even in retrospect, the investment looks prudent. "There was about $107 million in before the partnership was signed. This would have satisfied anybody...
What both sides should realize is that the issue of nuclear holdings is complex indeed, and that only thoughtful debate can lead to a policy that is at once prudent and ethical. Consider the following ways in which the nuclear issue differs from the South Africa...
...markets, capital and skilled labor that fuel the growth of another. Says Eugene Lerner, professor of finance at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management: "For a long time, thanks to inflation, a lot of firms found it convenient to borrow a lot more than was prudent. If inflation had continued, these same guys would have been millionaires. But someone always gets caught when the merry-go-round stops...
...Yale to reminisce in print about their college years. For most such figures, those were years of outstanding academic achievement, featuring meaningful friendships with influential professors and culminating in attractive fellowships and job-offers in short, just the sort of years that lend themselves, in all but the most prudent hands, to reminiscence of a singularly smug and irritating nature--especially, one might add, to an undergraduate reader...