Word: foresight
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...causes of his death? Yes again. 3) Was the smoking of Lucky Strikes a proximate, or one of the proximate, causes of the cancer? A third yes. 4) Could the American Tobacco Co.. on or before Feb. 1, 1956, "by the reasonable application of human skill and foresight, have known that users of Lucky Strike cigarettes, such as Green, would be endangered ... of contracting cancer of the lung...
...them has taken us into war. Three out of three is a mighty good batting average for a baseball player, but it is a mighty sorrowful average for Democratic Presidents. With such a record and with conditions in the world as they are, can we risk electing another Democrat? Foresight is better than hindsight...
...investment. Present to support Connor was Dr. E. C. Kendall, formerly at the Mayo Foundation, now at Princeton, one of three researchers who won Nobel Prizes for cortisone. Said Scientist Kendall: "Cortisone could still be just a laboratory curiosity if those who directed Merck & Co. had not had the foresight and courage to persist in trying to make it after everyone else had abandoned the attempt...
...that the Administration should be attacked in one of the few cases in which it shows any long-range foresight-the refusal to be stampeded into pouring useless billions into a worthless space race. If the American people want space superiority, they obviously can't get it for nothing; $10 billion a year will have to come from a reduction in defense weaponry or constructive welfare appropriations, or from a 20% increase in taxation...
...proposed U.N. action. But this time U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge came up with a surprise. Months ago he had ordered his staff to pore through the thousands of pages of Security Council proceedings in search of a model for a veto-proof resolution. Owing to Lodge's foresight, the U.S. was ready when the Laotian case unexpectedly came before the Council...