Word: foresights
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...time, Olivetti sorely lacked the kind of foresight and strategic thinking necessary for a company in modern office equipment. Among De Benedetti's first moves was stepping up research and development--from $28.3 million in 1978 to $130 million last year. He abandoned the manufacture of money-losing mechanical equipment like typewriters. He also began paring down a swollen payroll. From 61,500 employees when he took over, the number dropped to 47,600 last year, and is still declining. As a result, productivity has leaped more than 22% annually for the past two years...
...Dewitt's case this need is especially pressing. You are absolutely correct in saying that taking seven courses was a bit foolish, mother dear, but fortunately Dewitt had the foresight to enroll in one of them pass fail. Also fortunately, several professors in addition to giving reading or writing assignments to help in preparing for final examinations have required or suggested the class view a film...
...even if Bach realized that his music would last, he surely could not have imagined the changes posterity would make. Director of the Electronic Music Studio Ivan A. Tcherepnin said, "Bach showed a lot of foresight by not specifying instruments, tempo, or dynamics in some of his works. It's as if he was saying, in three hundred years, you can experiment with these things...
...seemed to them to be heading toward a national industrial policy. Alan Greenspan said it would lead inevitably to establishment of a Government board that would be making investment decisions more properly left to the market. Said he: "Those kinds of boards have 20-20 hindsight and extraordinarily inept foresight. Putting investment incentives in technologically advanced products is fine, but what are they? Who knows?" Zysman nonetheless believes that companies competing on the frontiers of high technology will need considerable help as they battle the Japanese and other foreign competitors. -By John S. DeMott
Perhaps. But the most galling thought for Democrats must be that the whole controversy might have been avoided, or at least prevented from reaching the dangerous point that it did, with a bit more foresight and more cooperation between the presidential and vice-presidential nominees. To begin with, the Mondale camp's prenomination review of the finances of Ferraro and her husband John Zaccaro fell short of the rigorous inquisition some other potential vice-presidential choices and their families have been put through...