Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field against much larger opponents, the coach should have kept him on the bench. The decision set a precedent: rather than merely exercising "reasonable care" for the player -- the earlier legal standard under New York State law -- coaches must now exercise the same degree of caution as an "ordinary prudent parent...
...arms control. When Carlucci replaced the ultra-hard-liner Caspar Weinberger last November, he ushered in a welcome collegiality between the Defense and State departments. On Capitol Hill, he is now probably the single most respected official of the Executive Branch; unlike Weinberger, he seems willing to make prudent compromises with budget-minded Senators as well as with the Soviets. Crowe too has impressed the State Department, even as he has balked at its proposed formulas for finessing the SLCM issue...
...computer system contains the cloned expertise of platoons of specialists who approve unusual credit requests for the company's estimated 20 million U.S. cardholders. For the first time, the computer will decide whether to okay the purchase of, say, a $5,000 Oriental rug by a usually prudent spender -- or nix the transaction on the suspicion that the cardholder is on a buying spree...
...could be more prudent not even to try to unstick the Middle East impasse, Kissinger believes: "It may be better not to get involved than to go there and have things go wrong." Is there no hope? Says Kissinger: "You've got to find some solution which balances the Arab need for self-esteem with Israeli security. I'm not sure it exists...
...Stone concludes that the sage, tired of life, did not wish vindication and went out of his way to antagonize the jury. Among other things, Socrates boasted that the oracle at Delphi had said of him, "No man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent." As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury...