Word: foresights
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...proximate cause for these changes has been the courage and foresight of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Soviet leader realized that his country could not survive spending billions on military weapons and leaving little for the basic needs of its people. He also saw that freedom of expression and political participation were critical to the stability and happiness of a nation...
...example, the editorial praises the "courage and foresight of Mikhail Gorbachev" and says Gorbachev changed mostly because he realized that spending too much on the military reduced his country's ability to provide basic needs. While this may be true, it leaves aside the other reasons cited--freedom and democracy. Are the liberals putting aside the causes of freedom, human rights and democracy in favor of dollar signs...
...effective but smaller military by the end if not the middle of the decade. The Pentagon's typical gamesmanship -- pretending to tighten its belt a little each year without rethinking basic issues -- could lead to the worst outcome: a hodgepodge of cuts that will come anyway, guided not by foresight and leadership but by some of the worst instincts in politics...
...this term does not quite capture the reality. Howard Hughes was reclusive; so are J.D. Salinger and Greta Garbo. These people achieved fabled recognitions and then decided to barricade themselves against a public that knew where they were and what they looked like. Pynchon, by contrast, somehow had the foresight to hide from the beginning; the only photographs of him in circulation date from his late adolescence. As a result, he resembles, in his freedom, an apparition he includes in Vineland, namely " 'Chuck,' the world's most invisible robot," an android that operates on an erratic airline between Los Angeles...
...most loudly claiming victory, including moderate Republicans who are uncomfortable with that label and would rather be seen as conservatives. Much of American policy now seems based on the conceit that insofar as Gorbachev is good news, he is both a consequence and a vindication of Western foresight, toughness, consistency and solidarity. According to this claim, the heady events of 1989 are the payoff for the $4.3 trillion ($9.3 trillion adjusted for inflation) that it has cost the U.S. to wage peace since...