Word: prudently
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...insurer, said the court, family harmony is not really threatened. Beyond that, "we find intolerable the notion that a parent may act negligently with impunity." The court moderated the impact of its decision on parental authority by declaring the test to be: "What would an ordinarily reasonable and prudent parent have done in similar circumstances...
...will depend on many complex factors: more efficient farm tools, better nourishment, the conquest of debilitating disease. Most important may be education. As Niger's eloquent President Diori puts it: "What's left after ten years of independence? The need to learn, and the need to be prudent...
Villot does not counsel simple obstructionism, however. National episcopates should know the "demographic situation in their countries." Papal representatives should offer "positive and morally acceptable proposals." So far, the proposals are limited to combatting poverty and hunger, cooperating in "prudent sexual education" and popularizing the rhythm method of birth control...
Complicated Chess. Poland is almost completely calm now. Perhaps the chief reason for the quick restoration of quiet is the prudent and impressive manner in which Gomulka's successor, Edward Gierek, 58, has taken control. Gierek's first move was to grant a number of immediate concessions to the workers, including a price freeze and an 18% raise in the minimum wage (to a still miserable $33 a month). Gierek has now begun a more complex program and, to reassure his neighbors about his plans, he has visited Moscow, East Berlin and Prague and sent his top aides...
...efforts were prudent, because Gore, 62, and a veteran of 32 years of political strife, counterattacked with more gusto than Brock, 39, seemed able to muster. Old Albert stumped hard, reminded Tennesseans of the bread-and-butter benefits he had fought for, and held his ground with courage, if not cunning. Unlike Democrats elsewhere, he refused to scramble for safe rhetoric when assailed on law-and-order...