Word: foresights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that Lyndon Johnson handled the Pueblo incident with the best diplomacy imaginable. We should be very glad that we have men in Washington with his patience and foresight. A hearty cheer for L.B.J. for averting a major...
There remains, however, a significant change in the federal-local relationship which I'm going to be dealing with further on while I'm at MIT. This finding a better way to bring the resources which are in Washington, because of the foresight of our forebears in enacting a graduated income tax, this is the only reasonably progressive and reasonably equitable way of raising the amount of money which is necessary to deal with the crisis of the city
...fairly stirring call to arms. Unfortunately, few Greeks heard it. Constantine had lacked the foresight-or the troops-to seize control of a regular radio station, and his message went out only on a weak short-wave station that was almost inaudible in Athens...
...government could take the time to consider "what will happen there when you do something here," then it might avoid strangling, entangling commitments. The silver-aired Reischauer analyzed the Vietnamese situation 13 years ago just as the U.S. took over from the French. With the foresight he advocates for the Executive, Reischauer warned then, "The French failure to relinquish Indochina has put a heavy burden on the United States financially and could end by costing us dearly in lives...
Like Opium. Butcher, 65, and Seabrook, 50, have been resolving the dilemma with finesse and foresight; they have snapped up some 20 other companies since 1959. The diversification began, says Seabrook, "because feeding your shareholders dividends is like feeding them opium. You have to keep giving larger doses. We didn't think we could face withdrawal symptoms." Accordingly, from gas and electricity production in the Canadian province of Alberta, International Utilities spread into ocean shipping, bus lines, demolition and salvage, steel fabrication, trucking and copper-silver mining. Revenues rose from $38 million in 1959 to $189.5 million last year...