Those cutbacks were regarded by TMG as prudent house-keeping in the face of digital restructuring as it sought, in the words of Jason Seiken, the group's chief content officer and editor-in-chief, to create a digital-first newsroom and in response to "ongoing challenges within our industry".
Northern Rock plc, the government's own attempt at creating a viable and simple bank, will not thrive in this government-created environment.This is not exactly proof that a bank which simply takes customer deposits and makes prudent housing loans - one version of the "narrow" banking model - will never work.
So we await a version of "The Three Little Pigs" -- which is doubtless even now on press -- in which the prudent pig builds his house of blue-chip industrials, while his foolish brothers put their trust in dot-com shares.
The administration previously sought to find a prudent balance in its housing assistance programs — perhaps to its regret.
However, if it is prudent to insure our houses, our cars and other possessions, surely it is also prudent to make sensible provision for our own health.
These were the so-called Vikings who at the height of the boom ran wild around the world making complicated, house-of-cards deals and encouraging a once prudent population to buy bigger houses and fancy cars in foreign currency.
Continued counseling and testing for additional sexually transmitted infections are prudent among HIV-positive, unstably housed women for both the health of the woman and potential secondary infections among her contacts.
Sometimes — and this would appear to be one of them — the more prudent strategy is to get one's house in order first.
"It used to be considered prudent to sell and then find another house," said Wayne McCann, owner of the Harmonious Homes agency in Sea Cliff.
But rather than accept that municipal housing, run by councils or housing associations, is a necessary and prudent investment that prevents far more costly homelessness, the government has focused on private home ownership that only benefits the already comfortable.
People are far more prudent today than they were during the housing bubble where extravagant renovations were more the norm.
