Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Either by luck or foresight, Connally hooked up with two extremely helpful men after passing his bar exam in 1938. He became Representative Lyndon Johnson's congressional secretary, won a Legion of Merit as a lieutenant aboard the carrier Essex in World War II, managed an Austin radio station, then became attorney for Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Sid Richardson. Tips from Richardson brought Connally a personal fortune of millions through deals in oil properties. The friendship of Johnson, whom Connally served as top strategist in every L.B.J. election campaign since 1937, brought him appointment as Secretary of the Navy...
...will even such careful legal foresight stand up? Mexican lawyers not in the divorce trade point with a glint of malice to the Mexican federal law requiring foreigners to get divorces by the laws of Mexico City, which do not permit divorce by mutual consent as in Chihuahua. By these rules, some lawyers claim, many thousands of U.S. citizens are unintentional bigamists...
Even acts of foresight have backfired. When inflation sent rice costs soaring, Macapagal dispatched trucks into the barrios to sell rice at a subsidized price half that of the retail trade. The long queues, called pilas, exposed customers to broiling sun and drenching rain, and rage instead of gratitude. In a Manila cinema a newsreel of Macapagal brought boos and shouts of "Pila! Pila!" A month before the elections, the government abandoned the "rolling stores" and switched to neighborhood rationing, with the subsidized rice handled in local shops...
Already the American Astronomical Society has requested the F.C.C. not to release the new license. The National Academy of Science, besides arguing the merits of astronomy's case against Channel 37, has had the foresight to ask the F.C.C. for a general study of radio astronomy and its frequency requirements. In response to these requests the government has temporarily limited he new channel to the Paterson station alone and forbidden transmission between midnight and 7 a.m. (These hours are chosen solely for the convenience of the television industry because radio antennas can operate effectively 24 hours...
...priceless, rainbow-hued documents of his passionate, lifelong homage to nature, but Cézanne often treated them like so much scrap; he even lighted the stove in his Provençal studio with works that might now be worth as much as $16,000 each. Only the foresight of his friends and early admirers-Gertrude Stein. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro-saved those that are left...