Word: prudently
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...before, in 1988 and 1991, I voted for closing bases," he says. "I helped draft the base-closure legislation we're working under. I've never approached this issue as a parochial or pork matter." But the Pentagon's new list, Dellums insists, smacks of political retribution rather than prudent pruning. "This is George Bush's base-closing list, and it's George Bush's base-closing commission," says an agitated Dellums, clearly distraught at the loss of jobs on his home turf. "If you think it's normal to include all five bases in my district...
...over, decade after decade, in words so fine that people who would rather have their teeth fixed than go to an actual game can quote paragraphs of Angell to each other. Even George Will, the frowning dominie of conservative political columnists, wrote Men at Work, a baseball book the prudent reader avoids because he is afraid it will prove what he suspects, that ballplayers are Republicans...
...prince, wrote Machiavelli, must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interest, and when the reasons that made him bind himself no longer exist...
...problem here is that delay is prudent, but so is Clinton's desire to move swiftly on all fronts. The President routinely quotes F.D.R.'s 1932 observation that "the country needs bold, persistent experimentation," but he rarely completes Roosevelt's thought: "Take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it and try another." But time is not Clinton's best friend. In an era when the citizenry's collective attention span can be measured in nanoseconds (and without a full-scale depression to guarantee patience), the President has confected his best chance to change course. If he fails...
...will not be able to resolve the paradoxes with which they are confronted. Our estimable Vice President's central processor will melt down and his head will explode. And to risk such a national tragedy for the dishonest political gains that the Clintonic mood afford just wouldn't be prudent...