Word: farsightedness
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To Le Monde, the treaty was a "turning point in the history of modern Europe." Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, called it an accomplishment of "farsighted boldness." Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the French publisher-politician, saw the pact as a "passport to the East, a preface to a policy of...
Idea's Beauty. The secret of the swift, silent ride is simple magnetism. Even before World War I, a farsighted French inventor, Emile Bachelet, demonstrated the feasibility of lifting railroad cars slightly off the track and propelling them forward with strong electromagnetic forces. The beauty of Bachelet's...
ON Wall Street, some things are more frightening than panic. One is the sort of Chinese water torture that the stock market has been enduring - the drip, drip, drip of week-by-week price erosion marked not by tumultuous selling but by an absence of buying. Panics tend to burn...
He was earning $1,200 a month and had saved about $5,000 despite supporting a wife and seven children. Three weeks after being laid off, he put down all of his savings, plus about $ 13,000 borrowed from his father, and opened a franchised Tastee Freez stand. "I am...
If you thought that Harvard's success in the Ivy hockey league depended primarily upon its two performances against defending champion Cornell, you might have been overly farsighted.