Word: prudently
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there is nothing more to do in this race. I can't win it, certainly there's no way I could've won the Iowa caucus, the New Hampshire primaries. Essentially the issue got taken away from me but it is okay. So at that point it just seems prudent to end it and be done...
...certainly not fair for a family with an income of $120,000 but with a large nest egg to receive financial aid. At the same time, we hope that Harvard will carefully think about what level of assets it defines as typical so as not to punish prudent saving for college. This concern, however, is fairly minor. Given the amount of planning that appears to have gone into this proposal and the tremendous benefit it will have for students across the financial spectrum, we are confident that this latest expansion of financial aid will be a roaring success...
...over a question about how he would react to a terrorist attack, sounding more like a candidate to head the volunteer fire department as he focused on disaster preparedness. Clinton, seeing her opening, spoke as a Commander in Chief: "I think a President must move as swiftly as is prudent to retaliate...
...world expects to consume 120 million bbl. a day two decades from now, actual supply may be half that rate. This conclusion aptly portrays the potential magnitude of the energy ditch we are now in. It is impossible to calculate the odds of this supply-demand imbalance happening, but prudent planning argues that the world should assume the bleaker scenario. Then it follows that a global plan to use oil more rationally must be urgently developed and implemented...
...politics as in medicine, there are some contagions that spread despite the most prudent vaccines. Witness the news this week that the United Kingdom has decided to lay claim to 385,000 sq mi (1 million sq km) of seabed off the coast of Antarctica, despite being a signatory to the 1959 treaty that was supposed to protect the earth's most desolate continent from the vagaries of international competition...