Word: prudently
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Even when fending off costly verdicts, newspapers are apt to feel besmirched by libel trials. The prudent course would be to mollify an aggrieved party before he sues, but just the opposite usually happens: a person who calls a newspaper to ask for a retraction or a correction finds his call impatiently shunted around the newsroom by people busy getting out the next edition. He was hurt and upset when he placed the call; when he hangs up he is angry and ready to sue. What began as a "golden opportunity for the press" ends...
...such concerns were foreseen when the President and Nancy Reagan arrived by helicopter at Bethesda Naval Hospital from the White House about 1:30 Friday afternoon. A routine checkup in March-had disclosed a polyp in the President's colon, and his doctors thought it prudent to remove it and make a thorough examination of the entire intestine at the same time. But they were in no rush and told the President he could schedule the procedure just about any time he chose. He eventually selected July 12, a day when there was nothing much on his calendar...
...linen reminiscent of Matthias Grünewald's painting in the 16th century, except here Jesus is crucified in a mushroom cloud. Michael Smith and Alan Herman produced a mixed-media work in 1983 called Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar, a survivalist food counter for the prudent nuclear family, equipped with provisions and three stools. In 1981 Robert Morris created a huge work for the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, titled Jornada del Muerto, after the site of the Trinity test. Morris' effort includes a drawing called The Miyuki Bridge, the bridge to which Kawamoto fled...
...Democrats' relative silence on all this has been prudent, but telling. Their implicit position has been to err toward law. "The notion that Florida failed to do its job in the Schiavo case is wrong," said Congressman Barney Frank, one of the few Democrats willing to speak about the case. "Procedurally, there was a great deal of due process." Frank was right, but it was a curiously sterile pronouncement, bereft of the Congressman's usual raucous humanity. It exemplified the Democratic Party's recent overdependence on legal process, a culture of law that has supplanted legislative consideration of vexing social...
...from venture capitalists convinced that cell-phone services are their newest gold mine. Wall Street has started to grill every consumer company about its wireless strategy. But this hypefest isn't quite like the dotcom delusion. "This started with a business model," notes Disney's Shapiro. "We're being prudent...