Word: prudently
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...business." At another time, he implies, things could change. Echoed a spokesman for Sterling Drug, maker of Panadol and Midol pain relievers: "We are still marketing the capsules. But it's a fluid situation. Any instance, such as the recent tampering cases, causes us to review our products." A prudent middle course would be for all manufacturers to adopt one of the new technologies for safer capsules as quickly as possible. If that does not stop the poisonings, the companies may have to swallow hard and abandon capsules for good...
...last-ditch effort, they say, a small nuclear warhead could be detonated on or near it. Says Shoemaker: "We have the technology to do that right now." But if the explosion simply broke the meteorite into large chunks, the danger would only be multiplied. "The more prudent solution," says Harris, "is to burrow a substantial charge into the object and blow it to smithereens...
...find a "rabbi" (mentor in B-school lingo), become his slave until a better mentor comes along, become his slave, etc. The concept of a personal life, or fun, does not seem to part of Stockman's mental vocabulary; only the ceaseless immersion in whichever intellectual orthodoxies seemed most prudent at the time...
This is a comforting thought, and the moviegoer feels proud and almost parental for having seen these beguiling youngsters through their difficult teenage years. Good sense suggests, however, that it is prudent not to get too comfortable. Even now, with the battered fortress of adulthood in grave need of repairs, a fresh assault is gathering. Sure as Sony makes videotape, unknown young directors with the artistic sensibility of not-yet-great white sharks are prowling the Taco Bells. Movie-struck, semi-pubescent punks with their cigarette packs turned up in the sleeves of their T shirts are spotting them...
...States can be improved in the face of the hostility of the American intellectual and academic elite, they should let us know what they are. If not, opposition to academic assistance to the CIA amounts to condemning American intelligence analysis to a lower level of sophistication than is either prudent, safe or necessary. If The Crimson wants to enhance the divorce between scholarship and the CIA, it should also realize that such a divorce has serious and harmful consequences for the country as a whole. The Safran affair and to a lesser degree the Betts and Huntington issue indicate again...