Word: foresaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Merrick foresaw the worst: if he did not do something drastic, and do it fast, the advance sale would vanish and Fanny would fold. He did something so drastic that dear old Broadway hasn't been quite the same since. He promptly signed on a raft of new pressagents and launched a promotion campaign three times as vast and ten times as vulgar as anything the theater had ever seen...
Look for Problems. "Opportunities are usually found where the problems are found," says Los Angeles' Fred Bailey, 39, who founded a small microwave company on a $500 stake, foresaw a shortage of ordnance parts for brush-fire war, and started to make them, earning $2,000,000. His word to entrepreneurs: "Go into anything that will deal heavily in helping solve the problems of the population explosion-to help provide food and fresh water to provide transportation and communications systems, to clean the air." Charles Gelman, 33, a Michigan chemist who was brought up in an orphanage, figured that...
Burying the Bomba. As soon as his victory seemed assured last week, the President-elect called a press conference to tick off his goals. A steadfast friend of the U.S., Marcos said that he foresaw no changes in U.S.-Philippine relations. Backing the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, he pledged that if needed, he would send combat troops in addition to the 100-man Philippine medical unit already there. And he called for a strengthening of economic and cultural relations among the SEATO nations...
Officials in New York, Vermont and Illinois, however, foresaw no immediate need for drafting undergraduates. "If the present build-up continues" Col. Francis Woodworth of Illinois said, "we'll have to find more manpower somewhere, and the boards have already started tightening up on deferment. But we don't look for any wholesale reclassification...
Gail Gillam '66, president of PBH, last night foresaw possible difficulty in recruiting more tutors but said some volunteers now tutoring in Boston might help man the new Cambridge projects. "PBH is anxious to cooperate with the CEOC," Miss Gillam explained, "but we may simply not have enough volunteers to manage all three 'target areas.' PBH certainly won't abandon any of its present programs to work in Cambridgeport and Jefferson Park...