Word: foresight
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...anyone imagine a more sincere dedication to the Great Society than a President who had the foresight to become hospitalized when the stock markets were closed for the weekend...
...President was perhaps at his best, and most himself, in his peroration. Said he: "The presidency brings no special gift of prophecy or foresight. You take an oath, step into an office, and must then help guide a great democracy. The answer was waiting for me in the land where I was born. It was once barren land. But men came and worked and endured and built. Today that country is abundant with fruit, cattle, goats and sheep. There are pleasant homes and lakes, and the floods are gone...
Yesterday's $12.5 million grant to Harvard by the Ford Foundation was not a windfall; rather, it is the direct result of President Pusey's unexampled patience and foresight as a fund-raiser. Congratulations are also due the Foundation, which directed its generosity with wisdom. Harvard, though widely respected for its faculty in most of the social sciences, has always been weak in "area studies," particularly in African and Latin American affairs; the Ford money will greatly strengthen these studies...
...Townes, provost of M.I.T. stressed the importance of a level-headed attitude towards science and technology. "One seems to be able to do almost anything," said Townes, who invented the laser and the maser. "We must not let space and other scientific exploration be limited by lack of foresight...
Most of the men who created Germany's industrial empires were prolific biologically as well as financially. Result: a complexity of heirs who often have neither the managerial ability nor the foresight as shareholders to guide the companies left in their hands. More than one company has withered after its founder's death, and a few-the Stinnes plastics and machinery network is the most recent example-have actually died. To remedy this situation and to avoid huge inheritance taxes, many German firms are turning over ownership to corporate foundations. Last week, in the biggest such move...