Word: prudently
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Obasanjo is backing Umaru Yar'Adua, a quiet, prudent former chemistry teacher, for the presidency, after a falling-out last year with his former ally Vice President Atiku Abubakar. When Abubakar announced he was running for President, he was barred from standing by the electoral commission, which cited his indictment for corruption. Abubakar has challenged the ban in the Supreme Court and continued to campaign as a candidate. But the leading challenger to the PDP is now Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general who organized a coup against President Shehu Shagari in 1983 and lost the 2003 election to Obasanjo...
...more). Cutting back on needless spending isn't a bad idea for anyone, but "renegotiating your credit-card balances or getting a lower cost on your IRA probably saves you a lot more money," says Christian Weller, an economist at the Center for American Progress. "That's much more prudent advice to women than saying 'Don't go buying all those Prada shoes...
...said, concluding that a troop cap would impinge upon the abilities of the president to carry out his duties as Commander-in-Chief. “There’s politics and our opinions and what’s tactical and what’s prudent but then there is what’s possible, and that all comes within the framework of the constitution,” said first year law student Saritha Komatireddy ’05, who attended the event. “What is a really fundamental question is what is constitutionally viable...
...Dobson believes he and his listeners need to know whether presidential candidates have been faithful in their marriages. And he wants to give candidates a chance publicly to confess their sins by being their official confessor. Gingrich, for his part, thinks it prudent to accommodate Dobson. He chooses to acknowledge behavior that was confirmed by his subsequent divorce and marriage to the woman in question. It must have occurred to Gingrich that in another era an intelligent and proud man like him would not have dignified such a question with an answer, let alone consent ahead of time to have...
...doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make up five percent of the world’s population, we consume 30 percent of its resources. It’s simply not possible or prudent for the “developing” world to copy the American way of life—the world simply doesn’t have enough gasoline, plastic wrap, or Prozac...