Word: foresights
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Half a year from retirement, David may feel justly proud of his contributions to the Business School's national leadership. His foresight during World War II helped the faculty to re-orient the curriculum to post-war business conditions. His insistence that the school maintain close ties with industry aided his campaign for twenty million dollars to build endowment and research funds. And his wide friendships with leaders in government and business have encouraged industry to accept the new doctrines developed at Harvard...
Perhaps the biggest students problem in the Graduate School is the high rate of withdrawals. Only half of those who receive the M.A. degree eventually receive their doctorate. Scholastic account for comparatively few losses; rather, the problem rests with the individual student's purpose and his financial foresight...
Even in the mellow glow of 1945, the delegates who met at San Francisco to sign the Charter had the foresight to know it was by no means perfect. As a safeguard, they wrote in a provision to allow for a review conference after ten years, if a simple majority in the General Assembly votes to have one. The review is scheduled for next yea. Saturday's UN Day, therefore, marks the end of this first trial period...
Really, the only producer who has kept his sense in the rush to be daring was the cagey fellow who bought the rights to Audie Murphy's To Hell And Back. It showed foresight to withhold filming until now when, indeed, it can be told--Golly...
...never. I'd love to go, just love to, but can't spare the money. The family, of course. Sole support. Work' in the mines all summer." Here you simply but dramatically turn your dirt-grimed and work-beaten palms to the assembled company. Since you have had the foresight to rub your hands in the loam outside the entry and since, as a matter of plain truth, you spent the entire summer rowing stroke for the Buffalo Yacht Club eight, your story will be unhesitatingly accepted. The assembled company will blush for shame for having so heartlessly tantalized...