Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goldman the prospects of U.S. corporations giving money to Harvard seem strong. He admires the foresight of German corporations, which he says don't restrict their money to the study of their own country, but insist that it be used to study all of Europe. He says he wishes that U.S. corporations would express the same commitment...
...Central Square, actually Harvard did its best but was saddled with too meager a mechanism to buy, or just wasn't shrewd enough to deal with private land developers. When the banks of the Charles were covered with old coal storage dumps, only a few alumni had the foresight to buy the parcel and donate it to Harvard...
...genial, contemplative Van Allen, ingenuity in planning space missions is nothing new. It was the University of Iowa scientist who had the foresight to prepare the tiny, 5½-in.-wide Geiger counter and transmitter that rode the first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, into space in 1958 and provided the initial clues that the earth is surrounded by belts of charged particles trapped in its magnetic field...
...farcical gallimaufry of gulls, lechers, tricksters and cynics. Some of their names indicate their foibles: Scandal, Tattle and Mrs. Frail, a succulent baggage of seeming accessibility who hopes to bed her way to wealth. Thanks to the brushstroke acting skill of John McMartin, the drollest portrait of all is Foresight, a doddering astrologist so fervently absorbed in his zodiacal predictions that he fails to notice that his wife is cuckolding him under the age-old sign of Venery...
...European country could go through the same upheaval without civil war," he adds. "The U.S. is still healthier than any other country." America's problem is that it tends to direct its attention to dealing with and solving immediate problems while "the necessity is for discipline and foresight to carry out necessary measures that cannot in advance be proven to be necessary...