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Other customers, however, were shaken by the charges. Said Lear: "I was stunned to learn of the indictment. This investment was highly recommended by my financial advisers as part of ongoing investment and tax-planning activities. It was considered both good and proper and involved several prudent investors. I hope we weren't mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $130 Million Celebrity Scam: Two Wall Street Firms | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...peace movements and the current "German uncertainties" are to a large extent the West's self-inflicted wounds. A wise and prudent American foreign policy is a necessary precondition for the Atlantic Alliance. But the sufficient conditions needed to truly restore the whole moral and psychological as well as military balance of forces in Europe include a northern European left which has it eyes open about the Soviet Union and is convinced that there is something very fundamental at stake in the conflict between East and West. Without that basis in the moral order, no amount of strategic brilliance...

Author: By Jeffrey Herf, | Title: After Deployment: Assessing the Balance of Forces in Europe | 12/2/1983 | See Source »

Beneath the Vatican's stern and watchful gaze, the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. sometimes must seem like an unruly teenager. Rather like an adolescent, the U.S. church demands the right to experiment and to be "relevant." Like any prudent parent, Pope John Paul II is seeking to exercise a firm hand without alienating. Consider some of the family conflicts over the past few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Struggle to Keep the Faith | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Kelley insisted that "security was adequate for what any responsible and prudent commander should have expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut:The Post-Mortem Goes On | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Presidential reputations are always fluid. Dwight Eisenhower, for example, was regarded during the '60s as a somewhat vague golfer with a tendency to blunder into sand traps when attempting a complicated English sentence. Now he is enjoying a rehabilitation. His watch was essentially peaceful and prudent, his revisionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.F.K. After 20 years, the question: How good a President? | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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