"He was a very prudent custodian of the city's finances," said John Mollenkopf, director of the CUNY Center for Urban Research.
"This is a very prudent planning and management step," Neil Bergsman, Maryland's budget director and president of the national budget officers' association, said.
But could such a government carry forward a programme of bold and energetic reform?Mr Tremonti, a tax lawyer by profession, has been a very prudent keeper of the public accounts.
And an allocation to gold in a portfolio, for most investors, is a very prudent thing.
"We are taking a very prudent approach to a high-risk schedule," General Kadish said in announcing the new timetable.
People involved in the process who are close to Guggenheim said that while the company was using its insurance companies to pay for the Dodgers, it was a very good, prudent deal for its investors and policyholders.
"He is a very flexible, prudent and open-minded person, and though he may have been a Communist, he has come to see there are other economic systems besides the state-oriented model".
He added: "The problem with the EIB, as you know, is that it has a very prudent attitude to investment because, to protect its triple A [rating], it does not want to take on, let's call it, excessive risk.
"This was a very sensible and prudent financial settlement which we are confident the business can afford," he said, "The club can now look forward to a bright, stable and financially sustainable future.
The advice to cut fishing is "reasonable and most likely a very prudent course of action," says Les Kaufmam, an ecologist at Boston University and Conservation International, but it won't be easy to convince some fishing communities.
