Word: prudently
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...despite the 50 previously detained suspects, several hundred more are still at large. And in Singapore, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong recently warned residents that despite the arrests there could well still be terrorists in their midst. "I do not want to alarm you," he said, "but it is prudent for us to work on the assumption that a bomb may go off somewhere in Singapore someday...
...course, since Sept. 11 the problems facing America have changed drastically, and Bush is right to respond with increased military spending. The aircraft, ships and munitions used in Afghanistan do not come cheaply, and it is prudent to replenish America’s military supplies and prepare for future operations. It is also essential to boost funding for intelligence-gathering agencies that are charged with anticipating and countering terrorist attacks before they happen. It is just as commendable to increase the pay of enlisted men and women, both those who fought in Afghanistan and those who supported them at home...
...stored earnings it can summon at will to pump up quarterly results in a way that makes earnings growth appear to be the result of expanding sales or higher margins. These allegations are "totally inaccurate," Kozlowski says. But those denials aren't persuasive to David Tice, who runs the Prudent Bear Fund and practices short selling, a technique that bets on a stock to fall. He has sold Tyco stock short and asserts that Tyco's core growth rate is just 7% or so a year--not the 15% to 20% that the company reports...
...that end, President George W. Bush’s call on Monday for Iraq to allow U.N. weapons inspectors to reenter the country was a prudent move. In the current environment, the international community is naturally more sensitive to threats—particularly those of the chemical, biological or nuclear sort...
Many of the measures the school is taking, such as the elimination of the under-utilized Washington office, would probably be prudent with or without a financial crunch, Zeckhauser said...