Word: foresightful
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...Dwight Eisenhower sent U-2 planes over the Soviet Union because he realized our first line of defense was information. When a U-2 was shot down in 1960, exposing the gigantic spy scheme, he was bitterly condemned by some for unnecessary provocation. The longer view now hails his foresight and courage...
...Theodore N. Vail, though, who invented the Bell System. Brilliant, sweeping, subtle, an organizing genius with uncanny foresight, Vail was boss from 1878 to 1887, during which time he put together all the pieces of the modern goliath. He built up an engineering department to develop new phone technology, and a manufacturing department to build telephone equipment. All the while he systematically sought to exclude non-Bell phone companies from his network. But Vail felt thwarted by Boston financiers more interested in fast profits than his far-reaching ideas, and so he quit at 42 and went into retirement...
...more appealing than Flynn's King was wise this summer to discard the African dashikis in favor of the new Mel King Look--the bowtie and suits--and the change symbolized that he had moved beyond the protest leader state. It is surprising that he did not have the foresight to throw the rhetoric into the trash as well...
...called South Africa's system of apartheid morally wrong [July 4]. But then he had the audacity to reaffirm the U.S. position of encouraging the Botha regime to make "small reforms" instead of advocating economic sanctions against the government of South Africa. If the Reagan Administration had any foresight, it would be devising a plan to put the U.S. on the side of those working to free South Africa from apartheid...
...existence, all too often foreshortened by death from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest part of the bottomless pit." His foresight is an astonishment; Green's hindsight is an education...