Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control over how their Social Security contributions are invested. Kerrey dismissed as "condescending" the notion that the average American can't be trusted to invest his own money. "Millions of middle-class Americans," he observed, "are investing successfully today," and their numbers are growing rapidly. Most of them are prudent enough to shift their savings gradually from the volatile stock market to stable short-term investments as they approach retirement...
...seat belt. (A dilemma: Is it too uncool to use mine?) He rarely looks at you when he talks, which is disconcerting, but he does so when he's driving, which is doubly disconcerting. (I buckle up. As his mother and others have learned, it's not always prudent to compete.) He turns into a dark drive with a chain-link fence that slides open as the Lexus approaches. It's nearing midnight, and the security guard looks a bit startled...
...number of those who oppose him down to about 15. Although heavy lobbying by the Republican leadership clearly paid off, some representatives remained dead set on not supporting the Speaker. Rep. Matt Salmon acknowledged Friday that he's changed sides, saying: "At the very least, it may be prudent for the Speaker to step aside at least temporarily, until these issues are resolved...
...despair of parents, the new drugs are being denied for now to most HIV-positive children, because testing for pediatric use is incomplete. The drug companies that conduct the tests have been slow to move. Properly so, insist the companies, saying it was prudent to experiment first on adults. Their critics believe the industry neglects pediatric AIDS because children under 12 are a small market in all senses. Since 1981, only 7,200 have been diagnosed as having AIDS...
External measures such as these confirm that Radcliffe is financially sound and prudent in investing its reserves to develop academic programs and the infrastructure necessary to support them...