Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce no food. Imitating Stalin's anti-kulak terror, they have shot 'hoarders and saboteurs' prudent enough to store grain . . . Help for the starving may make some of them suffer more, and reinforce the grip of the government that caused them to starve. Yet something must be done...
...When the future is unclear as it is, it strikes me to be prudent to have a reasonably conservative investment position," Cabot said, explaining Harvard Management's increased reliance on interest-bearing bonds. "The possibility of a recession" makes for an unstable investment climate," he added...
...Iranian Silkworm missile strikes on the oil tankers Sungari and Sea Isle City two weeks ago. The Sungari is U.S.-owned, and the Sea Isle City is one of eleven Kuwaiti tankers now flying the American flag. President Reagan called the 85-minute blitz of the oil platforms a "prudent yet restrained response" to Iranian aggression. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told a press briefing after the Navy action, "We consider the matter closed...
Sailors on the Iranian gunboats sailing southwest from Farsi Island on Thursday proved far less prudent. They had been under U.S. surveillance ever since their rendezvous off the island. One of the American observers tracking the quartet of vessels was an Army pilot in an unarmed OH-6 Hughes helicopter, running quietly at 800 ft. above the water and peering at the boats through an infrared night-vision scope. He had no trouble identifying the small craft. The largest was a 150-ft.-long Corvette, a steel-hulled boat that could carry a crew of 140. There was a Swedish...
American financial markets offer both the stability and variety of opportunity that prudent investors crave. Wall Street analysts give foreign investors credit for a major helping hand in the five-year bull market, and well they should. Via the computerized linkages that now tie together the world's financial markets, overseas investors are gobbling up U.S. stocks at a $39 billion annual rate this year, adding to their previous holdings of $167 billion. In the first three months of 1987, the Japanese bought $3.5 billion in U.S. stocks, while the British spent $2.4 Says Byron Wien, domestic portfolio strategist...