Word: prudently
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...with them almost every year thereafter,” Lewis writes in an e-mail. “It seemed to me prudent to stay in touch and to make sure that they were aware of what I was aware of about the activities that were taking place in their clubs...
...build the mainland's presence in oil-and-gas-rich Central Asia. Chinese oil executives have even begun courting Ecuador and Colombia in hopes of buying oil in the U.S.'s backyard. "Latin Americans feel frustrated that the U.S. has virtually ignored the region, so turning to China is prudent and will pay financial dividends down the line," says Cynthia Watson, a professor of strategy at the National War College in Washington...
...Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have cast aside the prudent, bi-partisan American foreign policy developed since World War II. American Presidents consistently have decided that pre-emptive attacks are called for only in the most narrow and well-justified circumstances. It was clear in 2003, and is even more clear today, that Iraq posed no clear and present danger to America and that the circumstances did not meet the hurdle required for a pre-emptive invasion...
...clear, these companies are legally doing business in these countries. Accordingly, the endowment investments of universities in these companies are likewise legal. That doesn’t make such investments ethically prudent or financially sound, though...
Howard and his ministers have grown accustomed to taunting Labor about the high interest rates that choked the economy to a standstill at the start of the 1990s. That interest rates have stayed low, as they have internationally, is as much a matter of luck as prudent policy. But it's also the payoff for market reforms over two decades that have raised productivity in almost every part of the Australian economy. Beating down inflation and expectations of future price rises for goods, services and labor has been the country's most impressive economic achievement. In any case, an independent...