Word: foresights
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...world's biggest manufacturing corporation-and the first president of a corporation to make more than $1 billion in net profits in a year. Curtice is not the Man of 1955 because these phenomenal figures measure him off as first among scores of equals whose skill, daring and foresight are forever opening new frontiers for the expanding American economy by granting millions to colleges, making new toasters that pop up twice as fast, or planning satellites to circle the earth. Harlow Curtice is the Man of 1955 because, in a job that required it, he has assumed the responsibility...
...down their necks, must have felt that some simpler way of applying for football tickets might be devised. And it is not probable that their feelings would be much altered by the confusion and delay of the ticket office, which is hardly preferable to the weather outside. Granted that foresight would have brought them to the ticket office earlier in the week, human nature dictates that the vast majority will always put the matter off until the last minute...
...plot in 1952, he was jailed for eight months. Suspected of participating in another plot the next year, he successfully defied police by demanding that a general of equal rank be sent to arrest him. Later, kept under surveillance until Perón in a moment of clouded foresight, decided he was harmless...
...choice. "What countries will be the first to have atomic power stations?" asked Belgium's Atomic Energy Boss Pierre Rychmans. "The Western European countries, which cannot afford to do otherwise . . . where the production of coal can't keep up with the needs of power stations." Out of foresight and necessity, Western Europe is putting its revived industrial brawn behind its scientific brains in the quest for nuclear power...
...flasco of the 11 Russian students' visit to this country is one of the most mismanaged bits of political maneuvering on our part in recent months. With a little foresight the State Department could have turned their trip to excellent advantage. But, as so often happens, we are now about to emerge on the short and of world opinion...