Word: foresaw
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Everyone in the bleachers at Beren Tennis Courts expected a close match. Both coaches and players foresaw a tight match. Even President Bok expected a close match. There was tension in the air and determination in the eye of each player...
...scheduled to resume next Sunday in a heathen form. Desperate dreamers have been running barricades of picketing stars to get to a field where only the best have ever belonged. Players' negotiator Gene Upshaw charged, "Management is trying to bust the union." His opposite number, Jack Donlan, foresaw "six to eight weeks of hard bargaining." Meanwhile, the N.F.L. planned to count any makeshift games in the standings (in order to ensure at least an adjusted TV contract); the advertisers figured to count the audience to determine their own rebates, and the losses all around may be counted in the tens...
From that premise flows Bork's belief that constitutional questions should be decided on the basis of the "original intent" of the framers. Judges should avoid creating new rights or notions, like "privacy" or "fairness," that the framers did not deposit there. Yet the Founding Fathers foresaw the possibility that the Bill of Rights might leave the impression that citizens possessed only those liberties specifically mentioned there. For that reason they provided a catchall in the Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Neglected...
...been witnessed is a positive one, not a negative one. Other countries, notably Japan and Western Europe, are regaining the positions they lost after World War II and thus are transforming the world into one with multiple centers of power instead of just the two. As Henry Kissinger foresaw, the development of a multipolar world will provide substantial strategic stability by blunting the bitter superpower rivalry with new powers that have to be reckoned with...
...orderliness, symmetrical design, a strong, arresting lead sentence. Then, there's all that shapely ambiguity. Even those who have never read the document, enduring wars, debts, threats to health, privacy, equality, down to questions raised by AIDS and aid to the contras, are convinced that the / Constitution's words foresaw all that...