Word: foresights
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...Foreign Service, was instrumental in getting the views of his lifelong friend and fellow Ambassador to Moscow George Kennan accepted in Washington. "A curious blend of arrogance and insecurity, haughtiness and self-pity" is how Isaacson and Thomas describe Kennan. Yet they have no doubts about his unmatched foresight. He predicted the Sino- Soviet split and accurately saw that Russia would continue to be a threat because "its perverse paranoia and historical expansionism had been abetted and amplified, but not caused, by the Marxist doctrine." Kennan gave the Wise Men a persuasive tool; when they wanted to argue...
...landscape whose surface has changed almost beyond recognition. To rehearse these alterations would be tedious, so let us quickly grant what we all know: the 24 states and 13 million inhabitants of 1831 have swelled to 50 and 240 million; scientific advances have stretched beyond my power of foresight; the United States is no longer an infant among nations but the most powerful entity on earth...
...Carrington is content in the aristocrtic body, and some observers say his lack of ties to the voters is partially responsible for his lack of foresight regarding the Falklands crisis; he was away from London much of the time, and he was in Jerusalem just before the invasion. His greatest lapse, his friends and few detractors agree, came during his time as Conservative Party chairman. The coal miners were on strike, and Carrington played a key role in convincing Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath to call pivotal new elections. Heath called them a few weeks after Carrington wanted them...
Camp that night was in a high, alpine meadow at the base of 10,035-ft. Goat Peak. Alas, the hot tub at the hut there was broken. But dinner was an elegant beef bourguignon. Caryl showed the foresight of a veteran trekker, never mind kick turns, by pulling a bottle of Jack Daniel's out of her pack. Simmie Salembier, 42, a caterer from Los Angeles, turned out to have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just...
Peres' austerity measures were considerably more popular in Washington, where the Reagan Administration has been pressuring Israel for economic reforms in return for $1.5 billion in supplementary aid for fiscal year 1985-86. Secretary of State George Shultz praised Peres for his "courage and foresight," and called the reform package "an important step forward in Israel's continuing efforts to stabilize its economy...