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...this out, mankind had its first radioactive mushroom cloud, and nothing would ever be the same. Project Director Oppenheimer realized this immediately, and his reach into Hindu scripture has become famous: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Even before the test blast, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr foresaw a fundamental change in the relationships among nation-states. Both Hitler and Churchill, on the other hand, failed to grasp the political consequences of the new energy. "After all," said the Prime Minister, "this new bomb is just going to be bigger than our present bombs. It involves no difference...
...this wheeling and dealing, of course, had effects beyond the fortunes of one executive and his company. Engineers at McDonnell-Douglas, one of Rockwell's competitors for the orbiter contract, foresaw the precise cause of the Challenger explosion--14 years before it occurred--and devised a solution for it. But McDonnell-Douglas couldn't play the game of "government contract hardball" as well as Rockwell and didn't play a major role in the program...
ABOUT A CENTURY ago, Friedrich Nietzsche made some terrifying predictions about the fate of man. He foresaw man's descent into a despicable creature--the last man, a beast whose only goal is comfortable self-preservation...
...Vose Sr., 85, who had led the bank since 1945. But the new chairman, J.G. Cairns Jr., found the institution in disarray, its books a mess and its staff slashed from 2,400 to 650. First National's decline proved so irreversible that on July 11 the FDIC foresaw an imminent collapse and put out a call for bids from other financial institutions to acquire the bank...
...drew to an end, Keynes had his fill of politics. His hope was that a reasonable treaty, calling for moderate reparations, might save postwar Europe from the economic disasters he foresaw. When Woodrow Wilson, among others, foiled his plan, he referred to him as "the greatest fraud on earth." All his frustrations, all his suffering poured out in the book that made him famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace...