Word: prudently
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...great architects of conservatism, like Edmund Burke, envisioned their political philosophy as a kind of intellectual cathedral, resting on solid principles but being modified and enriched by later craftsmen. "All government," wrote Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Many of the modern Presidents who have been hailed by Reagan shared that view. Dwight Eisenhower had an uncanny instinct for outrunning events and using them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open...
...mood of mounting concern, President Ronald Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative speech was the best news the Salvadoran government had received in weeks. Reagan's promises of long-term economic help for the entire Central American region, plus the warning that the U.S. will do "whatever is prudent and necessary to ensure the peace and security of the Caribbean area," noticeably buoyed President Duarte. The Salvadoran leader appeared on television to announce that he had sent his personal felicitaciones to the White House...
...some respects, Haldeman and Ehrlichman were rivals. On the whole, Ehrlichman sponsored or supported domestic policies that were humane and progressive. He favored reducing defense expenditures beyond a point I considered prudent so as to free resources for social programs; several times I appealed his interventions to Nixon. Ehrlichman was shaken by student protest following the Cambodian incursions. He had three teen-age children, and their travail touched him deeply. But Nixon's favor depended on one's readiness to fall in with the paranoid cult of the tough guy. The conspiracy of the press, the hostility...
...Communist rhetoric, and in a big way. "Very simply. "Reagan explained, "guerrillas armed and supported by and through Cuba are attempting to impose a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the people of El Salvador as part of a larger imperialistic plan." The United States, he continued, will do "Whatever is prudent and necessary to insure the peace and security" of the region. We can only presume that asking Congress for an additional $135 million in economic and military aid for EI Salvador represents such "prudent and necessary" action. And plainly, cutting the last drop of assistance to struggling but leftist Nicaragua...
...managers is that Wall Street was also giving off highly contrary signals about the Floor move, for different reasons. Quite simply, most analysts felt Fluor paid far too much for St. Joe--about $2.7 billion--and the stock of Fluor reacted negatively, falling out of the 50s range. The prudent move at the time was somewhat obvious: Take all of the $60-a-share bid for St. Joe that was offered, in cash, and then trade any of the shares that Fluor was offering of its own stock as soon as possible. (The article doesn't indicate whether Harvard...