Word: prudently
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...hefty discounts to fill its seats. American, on the other hand, has long employed "yield management"--software that continuously analyzes and adjusts ticket prices to maximize revenue per seat. Donald Carty, chief executive of American, calls TWA's broad discounts a "failing business model." American does not think it prudent to give money away. Says Carty: "Consumers should never expect those [prices] every...
...properly implemented, deploying a ground invasion force that overwhelmed Iraqi defenses. He then played an important role in helping to persuade President Bush to call it off after four days, once Iraqi forces were in retreat from Kuwait. Thus what has come to be known as the "Powell Doctrine" - prudent use of military force, but deployed in dimensions so overwhelming as to make victory a certainty, and always with a clear exit strategy. Fashioned in response to Vietnam, the formative experience of Powell's generation of commanders, the doctrine stands in marked contrast to the ways in which U.S. military...
...There's little doubt Powell will counsel a more prudent projection of force than was the case during the Clinton administration, and many foreign policy experts and military men may see that as a healthy change. Nonetheless, the inherent caution of the "Powell Doctrine" may on occasion prove somewhat self-limiting in a fast-changing world...
...list of grievances against the Ivy Council. Accusing the Ivy Council of wasting time at its conferences and complaining that it should provide funding for delegates' travel expenses, students voted to leave the group at the end of the year if these issues are not addressed. This prudent move should give the Ivy Council ample opportunity to reform. If it cannot, then the council's money would be better spent elsewhere...
...Cuban-American terrorist mafia." The official daily Granma charged that Cuban exiles had committed widespread electoral fraud, and demanded new elections in Florida to prove that it was a democracy rather than "a banana republic." (The Cuban leader may, of course, want to be a bit more prudent about demanding free and fair elections lest his people start getting ideas...