Word: foresight
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...deposits being at present 75.8% and 79% for the New York Bank. Yet we now have too much gold for our own good, and much of our present stock of the yellow metal should be re-exported as soon as circumstances will allow, lest either lack of financial foresight or uneconomic legislation bring on another unsound inflation of American credit...
...condition that $600 a year should be paid "every year forever" to "provide one or more courses of lectures of the highest character on literary and scientific subjects". It was an agreement which was not only creditable to the City of Cambridge, but singularly consistent with the thrifty foresight of Mr. Dowse. This foundation, established in the Golden Age of lyceum lectures, at once attracted the most brilliant and notable of speakers. The names of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumher, Edward Everett, and many other personalities of that period, appear...
...event far more notable artistically, the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre to New York in January. Boston has just felt the effects in the arrival of "He Who Gets Slapped". The Dramatic Club here, in selecting Andreyev's "The Life of Man", has acted with foresight. Even if it had no other ballast, it ought to sail smoothly to success on the rising tide of Russianism...
...with the warning of probation, no man can say that dismissal came upon him unawares. It is doubtful if more rules would reform the student who wittingly drops out, and it is more doubtful if responsibility should be taken from the rest for the few who still lack foresight and judgment...
...portion of their cost comes form many sources of waste which might be eliminated. Production is seasonal and therefore irregular; government figures show that for thirty years the miners have averaged, only 215 day of work per year. This condition, bad for both parties, would be betted if greater foresight on the part of the managers and greater cooperation in the allotment and hauling of cars on the part of the railroads made possible contituous and steadier production all the year round. Many marginal mines could then be closed and waste there ended...