Word: foresights
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...beseecned the audience to help bear the onus of making sure society survives a potentially internecine technological revolution. He admitted that his predictions of apocalypse could be wrong--if so, he said, he would not be the first prophet to miscalculate--but working on the assumption that lack of foresight would have devastating world-wide repercussions, Toffler said he felt he had a "moral duty" to sound the alarm...
...Quakers then took the field and proved his foresight to be accurate, and as a result, President Bok can now add yet another notch to his record: like God and my mother, he's made this column...
...increased security spending. "At the end when circumstances force us around the conference table-and no amount of guns can prevent that from happening-then we will wish we had the intelligence and foresight to do the right things when the opportunity was there. There is still time if we can take the initiative. And the majority of our people at this time are crying out for justice and bread, not guns...
...when he was chief of staff, Israeli citizens are really soldiers on eleven months' leave. Israel, moreover, has carefully tried to avoid glamorizing the military; only in recent years, for example, have medals been awarded-and then sparingly. But credit is also due in large part to the foresight of the late David Ben-Gurion. Conscious that Israel would have to remain a fortress state, the first Premier insisted that it not become a militaristic one. Ben-Gurion was so determined to keep the army out of politics that it was not until after he left office that officers...
...with feelings of awe similar to Orwell's. These men, whatever their motivations, defended a legitimate republication government against a puppet of Hitler and Mussolini when the government of the western democracies only sought to appease the fascists. The failure of appeasement and the resulting World War proved the foresight of the republican supporters. Steven Nelson,a veteran of the civil war who now lives in Truro, Mass., says history's vindication is the greatest reward for having fought...