Word: foresightedness
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Bells of Defiance. Triggering the last brutal round was a crudely mimeographed manifesto calling for a general strike. The strike showed sinews of strength from the start. The morning before the deadline, grocery stores were crowded by foresighted housewives laying in supplies; knots of grim-faced workers idled on street...
Hamlet kills three men (Claudius, Polonius and Laertes) with his own hand. After stabbing Polonius in his mother's presence, Hamlet says briskly: "I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room," and cracks a joke about the corpse starting to stink in a month or so. Far...
Quick to spot a moneymaking opportunity, Du Pont Treasurer John Jacob Raskob persuaded his firm, back in 1917-19, to sink about $50 million into a struggling automobile company named General Motors. That fabulously foresighted investment, now worth close to $2.7 billion, makes giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
Bouncing about among the opening-day crowd was foresighted Ernst Buchner, now 55, who had led the fight to rebuild the museum, and is once again its director. Said he. with just a touch of a lump in his throat: "A mile stone in the history of art."
America's natural resources are strictly limited, and their preservation requires a careful, foresighted use of them. For hydro-electrical potential and public lands, for wildlife and fisheries management, for all the resources under the public domain, the America of tomorrow requires that we turn our backs on the wasteful...