Word: prudently
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...days right after Pearl Harbor, Michael, the prudent son of a Baltimore, Md., grocer, meets the spirited Pauline, his opposite in most things. Just because opposites attract doesn't mean they attach--it's a lesson Tyler has taught before--and the link between these two is going bad even before they get to the altar. For the next 30 years or so, it's all touch...
...performing intergalactic hocus-pocus--getting credit for giant leaps but taking only tiny, insufficient steps. NASA projects that the full cost of the program would be close to $170 billion, but the President mentioned only $1 billion in new spending over the next five years. Bush is merely being prudent, say White House aides, who are focusing on the funding for the first stage of the plan. Rolling out a whole pot of new money is what doomed his father's effort to do a similar thing in 1989, when the $400 billion price tag ($600 billion in today...
...have not seen [a] smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I think the possibility of such connections did exist, and it was prudent to consider them at the time." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, in response to continued doubts about links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, one of the reasons the Bush Administration cited for going...
...have not seen [a] smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I think the possibility of such connections did exist, and it was prudent to consider them at the time." Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, in response to continued doubts about links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, one of the reasons the Bush Administration cited for going...
...their fifth highest annual price gain as measured by the Journal of Commerce--Economic Cycle Research Institute index, which began in 1949. How can individual investors profit from the rush? Analysts don't recommend esoteric futures and options, which are subject to vagaries like war and weather. A more prudent option, analysts say, is buying stock in companies that supply copper and tin, or an exchange-traded fund like the Materials Select Sector SPDR Trust, which rose 32% this year. --By Sean Gregory