Word: foresight
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...imminent pressure of examinations would to some degree eliminate the student's right to be irresponsible. While cramming is certainly not an efficient way of gaining understanding, it may be better to rest in the hope that students have the foresight and self-discipline to solve the problem for themselves...
...York as Saint Joan, returned Sunday to Sanders Theatre--the scene of her first triumph last August--to present "An Afternoon With the Irish Poets" under the auspices of the Poets' Theatre. The result was one of the largest throngs within memory. A few hundred of those who lacked foresight enough to obtain tickets far in advance were lucky and happy to get into Memorial Hall just to hear Miss McKenna's voice piped over a loud-speaker...
...work on the Hungarian revolution. He was filing from Hungary when the Times cabled him to get to Israel. Three days later, Bigart's byline appeared over a story from Tel Aviv. The Times's shift of Bigart was only icing on the cake. Thanks to both foresight and luck, the Times had its own coverage wherever the news was breaking; chance found its Military Analyst Hanson W. Baldwin in Cyprus just as the British and French served their ultimatum...
...Ideally," he adds, "the adviser should have technical knowledge of the student's field; he should have foresight enough to predict the number of applicants to graduate schools in five years; he should be familiar with all the courses in the university; and he should know and understand his advisee's personality almost immediately. This person just doesn't exist...
...from one of the state's most blue-blooded families, and rode as a cavalry officer under General Nathan Bedford Forrest (later one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan). His paternal grandfather not only made a pile out of a drugstore chain, but also had the foresight to buy, at $1 an acre, 600 acres of cotton land near the hamlet of Doddsville in the Mississippi Delta. Today Delta land fetches up to $200 an acre...