Word: foresight
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Comrades, we live at a splendid time: Communism has become the invincible force of our century. The further successes of Communism depend to an enormous degree on our will, our unity, our foresight and resolve. Through their struggle and their labor, Communists, the working class, will attain the great goals of Communism on earth. Men of the future, Communists of the next generations, will envy...
...much havoc with new students, admissions officers, and the University's financial planners. No one likes increases in tuition and room and board; they are painful for deans to announce and even more seriously difficult for students to manage. Nevertheless although a formal guarantee is not practical, a little foresight and some concern for parents and students with tight budgets would be a welcome step in the right direction...
Honeymoon's End. In this sudden burst of both hindsight and foresight, there was increasing evidence that the press's romance with Jack Kennedy, which began so handsomely during the campaign and waxed so warm after his November triumph, might not long survive the traditional postInaugural honeymoon. But that, too, was to be expected. Since George Washington's time, when the nation's first President complained, "The Government and the Officers of it are the constant theme for Newspaper abuse," the U.S. press has practiced with uninterrupted vigor its historical prerogative to find fault with Presidents...
...Gift of Foresight. Just when Prohibition gripped the U.S., Jenkins plunged into the sugar and alcohol business. Sometimes he bought in his own name, other times in cooperation with such men as Maximino Avila Camacho, the brother of onetime (1940-46) President Manuel Avila Camacho. When the great expropriator, President Lázaro Cárdenas, began casting covetous eyes at some of Jenkins' sugar land in the late 1930s, Jenkins shrewdly gave the land to Cÿrdenas as a gift. Later Jenkins told a friend, "I came out on top. I still get my sugar from...
...That is why I want scientists active in all the levels of government," Snow adds. For they are trained in foresight, while politicians are "masters of the short-term solution." Scientists "have it within them to know what a future-directed society feels like, for science itself, in its human aspect, is just that. That is why I want some scientists mixed up in our affairs. It would be bitter if, when this storm of history is over, the best epitaph that anyone could write of us was only that: they were 'the wisest...