Word: prudently
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...never be heard from again." Undaunted, White expanded his service and research. From detailed studies of patients, he learned that a man could survive a heart attack not only for weeks or months but for a quarter-century-if he followed the White regimen of weight control using a prudent diet, no smoking and programmed exercise...
...citation read: "For twenty-five years our steward, skillful, prudent, steadfast; he used his talents for Harvard's welfare--and wondrously multiplied her inheritance...
...thought they had their electrical problems well in hand. Power available from the four working windmill-shaped solar wings atop Skylab's telescope mount, and from fuel cells in the adjoining Apollo command module, was only about half what scientists had considered necessary for the mission. But by prudent rationing (turning off unnecessary lights, curtailing some experiments), the astronauts were able to perform most of their scheduled tasks. When they flipped Skylab over to begin earth-surveying photography with six high-resolution cameras, the functioning solar panels were turned away from the sun, forcing the spacecraft to rely temporarily...
...superfluous bases and then backed off, Nixon clearly means business. In fact, more cuts may be in store, including some of the 1963 U.S. installations overseas. Of all the controversial cutbacks Nixon has proposed to date, the trimming of military bases seems best able to stand the test of prudent management...
...communities with new names. When the order was restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814, there was a cadre of 600 Jesuits to begin again. But so wary were the Jesuits of earning new criticism that their first post-restoration general, Jan Roothaan, set a pattern for defensively prudent administration that few successors have risen above...