Word: prudently
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While there is a great deal of talk about the national debt, it is a fact that the Federal Government is more prudent than the citizens: since 1945, the federal debt has gone up 42% and private debt has gone up more than 500%. Personal debts continue to swell about 10% annually, and nobody expects that the economy can continue indefinitely to support such gains. The personal total now tops $264 billion, of which 70% is accounted for by mortgages. The rest of it is mostly short-term and medium-term installment credit...
...Prudent to endorse...
...brightest results was a free-swinging satiric show called That Was the Week That Was, which lampooned everything in sight, most particularly the then ruling Tories. It proved such a dose of acid and old lace that as last year's elections approached, Greene felt it prudent to close it down...
...every prudent Italian knows, it is perfectly legal and frequently necessary to fold the middle fingers back under the thumb and jab the first and little fingers down at the ground. Such "horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
...sharp division among the members suggests to some church observers that the mind of the church is not yet "mature" on the subject. Thus, even though millions of married Catholics hang intently on the decision, prudent Pope Paul may choose to say nothing at all, preferring to wait for some new medical discovery or the evolution of a firm theological consensus...