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Lincoln expected that America would become a nation doubtful about its heroes and its history. In his astonishing address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1838, on "the perpetuation of our political institutions," the 28-year-old Lincoln foresaw the inevitable rise in a modern democracy like ours of skepticism and worldliness. Indeed, he worried about the fate of free institutions in a maturing nation no longer shaped by a youthful, instinctive and (mostly) healthy patriotism...
...IISS assessment also foresaw new proliferation problems arising from efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons program. If those efforts succeed, said Fitzpatrick, "North Korea is going to have a lot of equipment it doesn't need any more. One concern is whether North Korea might feel disposed to trying to sell some of that equipment, particularly in a situation where North Korea's internal structure was beginning to fray, and there wasn't centralized control over nuclear assets." In that case, there would be several nations, among them Iran, who would certainly be interested in acquiring used components...
...variety of university students, alumni, and officials in the early nineteen eighties foresaw the inherent conflicts of interest in traditional financial aid offices...
...state constitution in 1918, in the words of its supporters at the time, “for the advancement and betterment of the rank and file of the people of this Commonwealth, those who work in our mills and our factories.” But even then, referendum supporters foresaw a danger with their initiative: that enhanced majority rule would leave “no safety for the few, for the single man, for the minority.”The Legislature’s vote has turned this fear into reality. With it, the petition to constitutionally ban gay marriage...
...field of paleontology, Harvard’s Fisher professor of natural history, Andrew H. Knoll, foresaw the discovery of a majority of the fossil record in the next 50 years...