Word: foresighted
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...hotels for me, thank goodness. my mother and father, when choosing my godparents, had the infinite wisdom and foresight to pick two people, each with their own spouses and homes, who both live in New Orleans and have children very close to my age. And my aunt had the good sense to pass down the genes for attending Loyola University in New Orleans (the alma mater of my mother and my aunt) to my same-age cousin Anne. They all have a strong sense of Southern hospitality...
...editorial also said that The Princetonian had not anticipated a negative response to the cartoon, and "our lack of foresight indicates that there is much headway that this newspaper needs to make in understanding the different perspectives this community holds...
...have a second daughter who would be a twin of the first, only several years younger. A couple for whom money was no object could give birth to the same child every few years. A woman could even give birth to her own twin, provided her parents had the foresight to preserve a clone of the embryo that produced...
...name Nintendo means "leave luck to heaven," but Sheff shows that the company's leaders have made their own luck, through hard work and foresight, while fighting off rival gamemakers such as Sega. When MCA Universal charged that the game Donkey Kong infringed on the copyright to the movie King Kong, Nintendo stubbornly refused to settle, and eventually MCA had to pay Nintendo a $1.8 million penalty. Nintendo chief Hiroshi Yamauchi also wisely built expansion capabilities in his entertainment systems, allowing an innocuous video-game system to perhaps become the home-communications network of the future. Writes Sheff: "Nintendo...
...With one-fifth of the earth's population living in the Islamic World, it is imperative that study of the highest quality be devoted to Islamic law. The foresight and generosity of King Fahd ensure that the world will always have at Harvard Law School a center for serious, objective academic study of this vital field," Law School Dean Robert C. Clark said in a statement...