Word: farsightedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Harvard's concern for its energy future was farsighted, however, its failure to recognize the plant's potential impact on the community was inexcusable. The University ploughed ahead with its plans, advancing huge sums of money for its pet project. Harvard had to know that its diesel engines would...
James Marston, 26, a lanky, soft-spoken Texas native who graduated from New York University Law School, is the "fuzzy-cheeked" nemesis assigned by the attorney general's office to South Padre Island. Says he: "The people who come here and buy land or condominium units don't...
The Foundation Trilogy (Avon, $5.95 paperback). A long time ahead in a galaxy far, far away, an old, decadent empire crumbles into barbarism as a farsighted few struggle, at the risk of their lives, to preserve enough fragments to lay the foundations for a new empire. The plot is familiar...
Just how a new version of an old, if farsighted, television series will be treated at the box office next Christmas is also a puzzling question. Despite the immense success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, science-fiction movies are often a fragile film commodity whose...
When Hannifin landed at TIME in 1946, he recalls, commercial aviation was still the domain of a few strong-willed and innovative men who ran their fledgling airlines with a fierce competitiveness. Among them was C.E. Woolman, who started Delta Air Lines with a pair of Huff-Daland crop-dusting...