And if this attitude sounds more like a foolish romanticism than a prudent, responsible, grounded-in-reality conservatism — well, yes, unfortunately I think it pretty clearly is.
The prudent middle ground would be to forestall any tax increases in 2011 and to phase in higher rates on upper-income households in 2012, when the economy will be on firmer ground.
Luckily, she rarely tried to cover this ground — probably a prudent decision, given the murky and not altogether constructive works of some of the white liberals who did.
But I'm worried that the housing allowance -- hundreds of thousands of dollars to allow them to approximate their current housing at exorbitant Westchester prices -- is something that only the geniuses who ran Nassau County into the ground could deem prudent.
Dennis Ross, the former Middle East negotiator and author of a recent book on diplomacy, says of the willingness to negotiate, "You don't want to make yourself the issue so that it becomes harder to get others to join you," though he adds that it's sometimes prudent to first "prepare the ground" with third parties who can explore the usefulness of discussion.
Witness the success of the fossil fuel divestment movement -- first on moral grounds and then for prudent stock portfolio management.
Instead they suggested a middle ground: a "system of prudent vigilance that carefully monitors, identifies and mitigates potential and realized harms over time".
"The commission instead proposes a middle ground — an ongoing system of prudent vigilance that carefully monitors, identifies and mitigates potential and realized harms over time".
"Even though we can't be certain it came from working at ground zero, we thought it would be prudent to reassign these officers," Mr. Morrison said.
Then, the proposed criteria are applied in a systematic way to a representative set of argumentation semantics available in the literature, namely grounded, complete, preferred, stable, semi-stable, ideal, prudent, and CF2 semantics.
