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...galvanize support. He has managed to mobilize virtually all 100,000 inhabitants of the valley, while collecting his own taxes, running his own schools and organizing his own food-rationing scheme. He has even used captured Soviet trucks to establish daily bus service in the valley. Massoud is also prudent enough to avoid needless risks. He travels with four gun-wielding bodyguards and packs a 9-mm automatic under his jacket. In order to elude the KhAD, he sleeps in a different house each night...
...motto for potential defendants today is "Be prepared." Some corporations are setting up million-dollar escrow funds to pay damage claims. Others are increasing their insurance coverage. One worried potential defendant upped its coverage last year from $5 million to $25.5 million. The prudent possessor of the deeper pocket: the Brentwood, N.Y., school district...
...author describes such rogues, they live their resolutely unreal lives with a style that touches gallantry. His account is as close to Binion's as a prudent soul will venture, but Alvarez knows both poker and the writing of English, and even if he does call bettors "punters," this field guide is the reader's equivalent of an inside straight. -By John Skow
...sensible vision. The authors have taken extraordinary care in analyzing whether particular weapons or strategic policies are stabilizing or destabilizing under certain circumstances. Humanity, they observe, "must live with [nuclear weapons] carefully, vigilantly, gingerly, always displaying the utmost caution." Living With Nuclear Weapons bespeaks much the same prudent attention to detail that its authors would like to see among American policy makers...
Neither side wants to risk a violent showdown that might jeopardize the Pope's visit. But that has not prevented a series of prudent skirmishes. The Communist leadership hopes the trip will demonstrate to the world that life in Poland has returned to normal. As if to emphasize that fact, Walesa received permission to resume the job of electrician, which he once held in the Gdansk shipyard. Still, the government during the week arrested some 30 Solidarity supporters suspected of planning unofficial protest demonstrations for the May 1 workers' holiday. At his press conference, Walesa protested that...