Word: foresights
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Once the French tour group disembarks at Ulan Bator, we are fewer than 35, most of us transit passengers with too little money and foresight to book an Intourist guide and hotel room in Moscow. To be ignored in the USSR is a privilege, but an unsettling one. Outside the window, peasants with produce, families with hampers, and soldiers with duffles reinforce this sense of travelers' limbo. We are insubstantial, unaffiliated. The Russians, much to our disappointment, do not stamp our passports. When we finally leave the country, they collect our visa form and leave us no trace...
...Neither foresight nor omnipresence in white-collar enclaves ensured Xerox of success with products other than copiers. Its Star work station, one of the first office-of-the-future products designed for managers not comfortable with computers, has had disappointing sales since its introduction last year. Now it is almost too late. Says an analyst: "When it comes to automated offices, they're not good enough relative to those they're up against-IBM, AT&T and Kodak. They're not strong as a team...
...only all public officials would use such foresight, and devise such creative solutions to complex problems, perhaps the world would be a better place for all of us by five-seven hundred-forty-five...
...than ever. "It will probably mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars," says Earl Kreps of the Chamber of Commerce, "not just in Pontiac but all of southeastern Michigan." The city-owned Silverdome will lose $275,000 for every missed game. The city of Miami had the foresight to purchase a $300,000 strike-insurance policy in July (premiums: $12,000). That should about cover a season's losses in parking fees and concession sales. In San Francisco, Mayor Dianne Feinstein said, "We lose a lot more [than money] in terms of the momentum of pride...
...order to rise in the world is a perfectly legitimate goal. But Ginsberg has been receiving letters from high school freshmen asking about the prospects for professional schools and job opportunities when they graduate from college seven years hence. Says he: "I don't know at what point foresight ends and panic sets...