Word: foresights
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...have a task to do, and we're going to go ahead and do it." So said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, reflecting what was probably the Reagan Administration's dominant view of the challenge posed by Tehran. But even as the Administration was being assailed for the lack of foresight in its gulf policy, the Pentagon was thinking hard about what to do in the event of an Iranian attack on U.S. warships in the waterway. Beyond that, other questions loomed. How could immediate tensions in the region be eased? Above all, what can Western governments...
...request that it impose the settlement on the rebels -- by force if need be. Asked at a news conference last week why he had not made those concessions before, Jayewardene drew gasps when he replied, "Lack of courage on my part, lack of intelligence on my part, lack of foresight on my part...
This lack of foresight on the council's part is particularly disturbing since the last Harvard concert, by REM in 1983, turned out to be a financial disaster...
This idea that the U.S. is responsible for many of its own trade difficulties, whatever practices the Japanese follow, runs through comments by many people much less expert than Henson on world economics. Says Sheila Saunders, office manager for a monthly magazine in Atlanta: "There was not enough foresight to see that Japan would eventually outproduce us. Basically, we did not meet the competition. We need to advance our technology to produce quality products cheaper...
...contrast, last week's open letter sets up not a committee of investigation, but one of prevention. We trust that the letter represents a real change in stance from hindsight to foresight...