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...began to moo like a cow every hour on the hour. Others greeted each new program with the sound of breaking glass. Still others spent their spare moments doing celebrity impersonations: Ed McMahon belly laughing, Ronald Reagan mumbling, "Well . . .," George Bush advising that a particular keystroke "wouldn't be prudent" or Star Trek's Dr. McCoy spluttering, "Dammit...
...think it's a prudent move for the club to move into the '90s," Boyle said...
Dampening expectations is prudent and shrewd, but it won't get Clinton off the hook. A sick economy in 1996 will sink him. No one expects miracles, and few will quibble if the economy isn't completely well, but it had better be on the mend and be seen to be. "If 70% of the people still think the country is on the wrong track," says a Clinton aide, "we're dead." While key policy decisions hang unresolved, several structural and personnel determinations are of equal importance. Foremost is the exact role of the Economic Security Council, the new White...
...order to solve the solid waste problem. Each of these guidelines will reduce "virgin" packaging by about 25 percent by 1996 and by 50 percent by 2002. Industries could either reduce packaging, make their packaging recyclable or recycle from already-used packaging. We endorse Question Three as a prudent pro-environment, pro-business answer to a major problem...
When the war ended in 1988, Iraq was the strongest power in the Persian Gulf. Some State Department officials thought tilting back from Baghdad would be prudent. There was ample evidence of brutality by Saddam, including use of poison gas against Iranians during the war and on his own people in the Kurdish city of Halabja, where at least 5,000 civilians were killed. Iraq was also considered a regional bully...