Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial managers, who maintain a long-term perspective regarding the endowment, had to rely on reinvesting income to keep the endowment from losing too much ground. Because the University relies on endowment income both to bolster endowment value and to help support faculties and departments, administrators must determine a "prudent" balance between those purposes...
Though Clark had been pressed upon Haig by the Reagan circle, the two developed a solid relationship. Haig, while ever anxious to protect his own turf, has even shown some deference to his recent subordinate. Officials calling on Clark get an instant reminder of why such protocol is prudent. The first ornament striking a visitor's eye is a large photograph dating from 1968 of three smiling men on horseback: Clark, his father and Ronald Reagan...
...driven many businessmen to close their doors and flee the country. Today guerrilla groups in Usulutan department loiter openly along the nation's most important highway, occasionally burning buses and trucks, collecting "revolutionary taxes" from travelers and delivering political lectures while Salvadoran army soldiers watch from a prudent distance. In one such incident, about 40 guerrillas armed with M-16s and older carbines blocked the road and burned a cotton truck and a Jeep. The marauders posed happily for pictures. About a mile away, a contingent of Salvadoran soldiers watched the billowing smoke rise...
...With inflation cutbacks in government aid to higher education, and the rapid rise of tuition it didn't seem prudent to take on a new building," he added...
...Union, an intimacy that has made "Finlandization" an operative word in every diplomat's vocabulary. During his campaign, Koivisto said that "stable and confidential relations with the Soviet Union have been and will be the central element of Finland's foreign policy." In Finland, no serious and prudent candidate could make any other pledge...