Word: foresight
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...everyone knows, Brown has his failings. He has shown no foresight in dealing with the Negro slums of Watts in Los Angeles and McAllister-Hunter's Point in San Francisco. His once firm support of open housing laws has faded to a hoarse whisper in the face of massive voter antagonism. In moments of crisis, particularly during the Berkeley demonstrations two years ago, he has vacillated and yielded to irrational pressures...
...always restrained yet his open disdain for the slithery lawyer Buckram (Bernard Wurger) is still as funny as anything in the show. Wurger himself smoothly handles a three minute conversation from a blackhatted Puritan lawyer to a shyly drunk self-acknowledged stud. Gerald McGonagill as the addled astrologer Foresight, when calm, is also entertaining...
...Ironically, Mrs. Goldberg decided not to sue Lockheed, simply settled out of court with American Airlines for some $10,000.) In the Goldberg case, relaxing the privity requirement also imposed "strict liability" on the manufacturer. Under this principle, the plaintiff is not obliged to show that the manufacturer lacked foresight or was actually negligent in causing the defect. The plaintiff need only show that the product was faulty and that the injury occurred. In short, consumers are now entitled to assume that more and more products will work safely, as advertised, when normally used...
...Tahoe was a drowsy summer paradise of about 3,000 residents; by 1965, it was a turbulent tourist mecca of gaudy gambling casinos, glaring neon bar strips, and other commercialized enticements playing to camping-room-only crowds. Now with just under 6,000,000 visitors annually, even the foresight that led the South Tahoe Public Utilities District to build and thrice expand its sewage disposal plant from 1958 on has proved woefully inadequate; the plant, with a top disposal capacity of 2.5 million gallons of sewage a day, is being called upon to deal with some 4,000,000 gallons...
...lack of candor and foresight displayed in this case unfortunately seem characteristic of the administration's approach to local boards and the draft in general. The administration has not yet announced what kind of system it will use to rank students once the national plan for tests and rankings goes into effect. It has left in doubt the status of Russell Beecher's successor as draft advisor in the office of Graduate and Career Plans. And it has failed thus far to specify what kind of data--and how much--it is prepared to send local boards...