Word: foresighted
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Climate change is truly a worldwide threat, yet it will only wreck the planet if we remain paralyzed with unreasoning fear and inaction. Like so many other problems that we've solved, this one too can be overcome through a combination of foresight, knowledge and ingenuity. And this time - if we're really smart about it - we'll have the whole planet working together in common cause...
That year Harvard paid heavily for its lack of foresight, losing to the Big Green...
...said the very “essence” of this University “is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future—not simply or even primarily to the present.” Our insular, inflexible administration cannot possibly have the foresight to be accountable to the future without hearing from the very people it has chosen to lead that same future...
...Some believe the administration should act as our parental figures, knowing what’s best because we don’t have the foresight or wisdom yet to decide. I disagree. When I once refused to eat broccoli, my mother didn’t say: “eat it because I say so.” Instead, she discussed with me the pros and cons of broccoli-eating. Now I love that delicious fibrous vegetable...
...some 800 supporters. By the time they reached the airport, the party was down to one. All the others had been stopped at barricades blocking the roads into the capital. The only reason he was able to get to the airport, he says, was that he had had the foresight to buy an outgoing air ticket that day and was, thus, technically a passenger. He called himself a "stealth welcoming committee," but admitted that he would be able to provide little of the fanfare his group had anticipated. Carrying a banner would have been too risky. "How could I have...