Kate Chopin in her 1899 novel The Awakening allowed impecunious Mrs Sommers to spend a sudden $15 not, as prudently planned, on remnants to outfit her family, but on mass-produced accessories - silk stockings, boots and gloves - bought in that new temple for women's expenditure, the department store.
Microsoft's stock barely budged, perhaps because the firm prudently planned the job change two years in advance.
BBVA, meanwhile, is paying its 2008 dividend partly in shares, and prudently plans to cut the payout ratio for 2009.Rivalries aside, the banks created a combined €14.3 billion in net profit in a year when many of their banking peers around the world were on their knees.
"The Pentagon is a clearly a target in a general sense," the chief spokesman for the Defense Department, Lawrence Di Rita, told reporters, adding that department officials were merely prudently planning for "what might you do differently in the wake of what we know has already happened once, and that is that we were attacked".
The commission, which included Catholic married couples and physicians, reportedly voted overwhelmingly to lift the Vatican's blanket ban on artificial birth control, and to permit married couples to prudently plan their families.
"The only thing we can do is prudently plan for what I think is a very small risk, but the risk probably does exist," he said.
"Local councils knew the cuts were coming and had planned prudently to reduce spending over the coming years.
Cao planned so prudently that during the next fourteen operations, from mid-October through most of December, only three of his soldiers were killed, and the reports indicated that these three died accidentally, from "friendly fire".
He said that he hoped that clubs would use the windfall to plan prudently for the future and reduce their losses, reducing their reliance on benefactors.
That has allowed them to plan more prudently.
Studies in the UK show that many women do not eat prudently around conception [ 8], and only a minority of women becoming pregnant, whether planned or not, adhere to guidelines about a healthy diet and lifestyle [ 9].
