Word: foresight
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...birth control enthusiasts who want to tax a family with more than two children and put sterility drugs in the public water supplies: it is a pity that their parents did not have the foresight to have themselves sterilized before they had had one too many children. That would have been nipping the problem...
...that is, except the short man himself. To Sociologist Feldman of Case Western Reserve University, that point is well illustrated by the language. Instead of the neutral "What is your height?", the question is always the invidious "How tall are you?" Dishonest cashiers shortchange customers, and people who lack foresight are shortsighted...
...letter writer to a British newspaper last week enthusiastically observed that Giacomo Puccini showed uncanny foresight when he named two characters in his opera Ping and Pong. Perhaps so. The China of the opera was a place gilded with unreality; but what excited Americans last week about the astounding venture in Ping Pong diplomacy was that China was becoming real...
When asked what he and the Democratic Party had done to end the war in the past, Bayh said, "Not enough. Hindsight is better than foresight, but nobody's hands are clean." Bayh traced responsibility for the war to the Senate's passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1965 when "we gave the President all the power he could need...
...repairing, replacing or suppressing a "sick" gene?could be profoundly moral. Depending on the defect, genetic surgery before or after birth could prevent abnormality, and also insure that it was not passed on. Moral Theologian Bernard Häring of Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana applauds basic remedial intervention as "corrective foresight...