Word: foresights
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...agree with the apologists for the Bush Administration; no one could have envisioned the atrocities of Sept. 11. But logic dictates that at the very least, intelligence information about suspicious activities should have been conveyed to the security authorities at airports. It's not that we expected perfect foresight, just common sense. ERNESTO VALDES Houston...
...coincidence that every visit by General Zinni to broker a truce has brought a sharp uptick in terror attacks. The militants believe they can win by violence, and they have no interest in negotiations over a two-state solution. That's why the late Yitzhak Rabin had the foresight to recognize that stopping the peace process in response to terror attacks gave extremists veto power over the destiny of both peoples. He kept the Oslo process going even when suicide bombers attacked, believing that the terrorists would ultimately be defeated by the completion of the peace process. Rabin's motto...
...other appropriate and affordable housing options. FAS should facilitate their move from DeWolfe, whether it is to other University-owned buildings or to private housing. There appears to be little resentment towards FAS for its decision among the displaced DeWolfe Faculty, possibly due to the College’s foresight in informing them earlier this year that they would need to move...
...anything. Even when they killed those people in the Embassy in Dar es Salaam and there was terror around the world, there was not the sense of urgency that we had to deal with it—but it may have been better to have had the foresight to deal with it then...
Naysayers at the time cautioned that the bill’s worst consequences would not be felt until the boom ended; of course, such foresight was quickly muffled by the roaring debate about how to spend a surplus that vanished before it ever materialized. The bill must be renewed this year, just when its optimistic if not utopian targets (like the requirement that 50 percent of signle parents on welfare work at least 30 hours per week) might need a little tweaking in light of the recession. Bush’s former gubernatorial colleagues are asking for wiggle room...