Word: foresight
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...direction, any serious attempt to dramatically improve the environment for future generations would take much more money than the amount lost every year to budgetary rounding errors, spread over five years. A real environmental initiative would sure take some guts. One can only hope that Bush will have the foresight to enact such a plan...
...1980s, capitalizing on top-quality Turkish cotton and competitive labor costs to produce for brands like Lee and Wrangler. "Eventually I decided we had learned this business and were ready to do it ourselves," he says. In 1991, Mavi, which means blue in Turkish, was born. It took some foresight to predict that jeans would take off in this mainly Muslim, albeit secular, country. Like Coke and rock 'n' roll, jeans arrived with American G.I.s in the '50s. They became a leftist uniform in the '70s, but it wasn't until the '80s with the advent of liberal leader...
...wayside, economically and otherwise. While he did not specifically cite the Bush administration?s restrictions on stem cells, his listeners interpreted his comments as an implied warning about the economic dangers of such a policy. In a similar vein, Ralph Merkle, vice president of technology assessment for the Foresight Institute, heralded the great promise of nanotechnology in medicine - the development, for example, of tiny molecular computers that could work inside the body - but threw cold water on the idea of any quick profits from such innovations because we are still many years from being turned into a practical reality...
...abysmal circumstances surrounding elections this fall can be easily prevented in the future, with a little more foresight from council leadership, and with serious reevaluation of election bylaws. Reforms would set clearer and fairer guidelines for candidates and would provide voters with more vibrant and informative campaigns...
...interested in this?' " For anything that more than one of them wanted, Stelter and her husband Willis laid down a rule: draw straws or toss a coin. Son Jon, 45, an electrical engineer in Minneapolis, thinks his parents' plan is fair. Still, much as he appreciates his mother's foresight, he admits he didn't look at the photos for several weeks. "My first reaction was 'I don't want to think about my parents' death,'" he says...