Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Because of Meyer, the Vermont political campaign has displayed clearly the line between political conformity and political foresight. The Republicans are faced with issues which neither they nor the voters of the state had confronted before Meyer's surprising election in 1958; their only choice has been to appeal to the voter's fears. Their candidate, Governor Robert Stafford, has alternately been forced to sing a paean to American military strength and to label Meyer "dangerously naive...
Even his opponents seem awed by his integrity, and are thus forced to pursue the point that Meyer's very honesty and foresight make him unqualified, on the grounds that a man who essentially speaks his own mind does not speak as a true representative. This allegation causes a smile to work itself slowly across Meyer's strong face, finally curling his thin mustache: "I've taken more polls, done more listening, and solicited more mail than any of my predecessors: I've gone up and down the state and I think I know a great deal about what Vermonters...
...acting group concerned only with its own rewards deserves no public), and students actors are usually, in name and in fact, associated with the college, which itself has (one hopes) some artistic standards. Furthermore, these amateur students of theater have some right to the same experience in planning, foresight, logic, discipline, as is offered them in more straight-forwardly academic programs: in physical sciences, who would build a laboratory and turn in over to untrained students without some experienced guide or instructor on hand? Does anyone expect the football, lacrosse, rugby, or swimming team to perform capably without coaching? Some...