Word: foresight
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...Capitol, last week, in advance of the reopening of Congress. With Martin B. Madden of Illinois in the Chair, the Committee settled down to work on a number of appropriation bills. The supply bills for the Post Office and the Interior Departments were taken up. With appropriate foresight, the Committee hopes to have several appropriation measures ready for the House as soon as it assembles...
...world's crop is sold in the Mincing Lane market in London. The British made up their minds that if Russians could not buy tea, somebody else must. They subscribed $2,000,000 for publicity and advertising, to increase tea-drinking. Just now their persistence and foresight is being rewarded...
...country a pretty penny to recover Teapot Dome and Elk Hills from the lessees-if they are recovered. Since every body became excited about the alleged debauchery of the Navy's oil reserves, it is probably true that the prosecution has been carried on with more thoroughness than foresight as to whether the accomplishments will balance the cost of the prosecution. So far the $100,000 expenditure is equivalent to buying every family in the country almost a gill of gasoline at retail prices. If the entire affair does not cost Uncle Sam's children more than...
...likely to lose credit for the good it may actually accomplish. Yet to coerce unwilling attention may be the part of honest service, and the original tradition, in the case of the Advocate, is richly on the side of reform and ardent, crusading, conducted with wisdom, foresight, and study...
Nothing is quite so easy to do, or so unfair in the ''doing, as throwing mud at former prophecies that haven't "panned out." Hindsight, now as previously, is much simpler than foresight. All the same, there was heard last week considerable criticism of the bankers and industrial leaders who last Fall predicted great prosperity this Spring. The Spring has come, but profits in most lines of industry are getting leaner each week; in some industries they have disappeared...