Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealt with Jewish angst. A continual stream of advice is freely and insistently dispensed by the two girls' strikingly contrasting mothers, who have the same goal but different means of achieving it. They just want to do the best for their daughters, but frequently don't have enough foresight to do this well. Ilana Kurshan '00 was terrific as Tasha, Janie's mother, keeping a balance between pushy and pathetic in her interaction with her daughter. This combination of emotions was touching if predictable. On the other hand, Lillian (Aviva Preminger '00), Harriet's mother, was stiff in giving advice...
Benefit number three requires a little bit of foresight. As hard as it is to imagine now, come May the weather will be warm. And once again, while we are in finals, our friends at other, more considerate universities will be reveling in the first days of summer vacation. Although we do start later than those same friends, the lessons of simple economics help us understand that a few days at the end of the summer, when we are already satiated with relaxation, are worth significantly less than the same number of days at its beginning, when the very mention...
...what do these numbers all mean? Obviously, for the past six years, they have obviously been indicators of U.S. News' supreme foresight and intuition about the state of the nation's higher education. After all, the same magazine two years ago cited the word Harvard as "the seven letters that attach themselves to your name like a foreign knighthood." We like to agree...
...Davis, information about schools like Harvard came not from parents with extensive foresight but from the high-school academic track of math leagues and competitions. His father graduated from Western Michigan University; his mother did not attend college...
Their obsolescence is being planned not just because they are old, but also because their builders didn't have the foresight to provide them with club seating, luxury boxes and Hard Rock Cafes. It would be easy to blame the baseball owners for being greedy, and make no mistake, they are. But their co-conspirators and enablers are legion: politicians, corporations, economists, fans, journalists. Sportswriters who once thought the designated hitter was the end of civilization now dismiss the old ball parks as inconvenient anachronisms. Tiger Stadium? "Bad neighborhood," say my brethren. Fenway Park? "Hey, it's a sardine...