Word: foresights
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...roof puffed up like a huge blanket. The stadium, built with a combination of public and private funds, including multimillion-dollar endowments from foundations and a 1% tax on food and beverages, is a major reason why the Colts have come to Indianapolis, and a tribute to the foresight and business acumen of the people running the city...
...biographer's view, Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a genius with a powerful physical presence. His foresight, combined with a generous, romantic spirit, made him irresistible to women and children and, indeed, to much of the reading public. Rebecca West, by contrast, was a woman of sharp beauty, "wit, acute observation . . . and a wild paranoia." Through the ten years of their romance, she tells friends of various humiliations: Wells ignores her, he suffers from fits of maniacal rage, he becomes childishly dependent. But the author says, "I cannot believe a word . . . they are inventions," and then goes...
Mitterrand may have shown determination and foresight in his foreign policies, but his management of France's domestic affairs has been woefully incoherent. France has had to pay heavily for Mitterrand's spending. The Socialist dream is over...
...ridiculous? baffling? The answer is all of the above and then some. The potpourri of a plot includes such juicy little scenes as a gang rape, several heart attacks to which the family responds with admirable aplomb, gay-baiting, and a flatulent family dog named Sorrow. Irving showed much foresight in naming this dog Sorrow. First, so that after the dog dies, is stuffed and falls out of an airplane into the sea, the earnest young narrator can say "Sorrow floats." Later on in the movie this useful beast is at the heart of another equally profound statement when...
...example, McGovern was among the first Congressmen to criticize U.S. intervention in Vietnam, an opposition which became the overriding issue in the 1972 campaign. McGovern's early calls for the recognition of mainland China and peaceful coexistence with Fidel Castro's Cuba have also become testament to McGovern's foresight in foreign policy matters...