Word: foresights
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...need greater emphasis on long-term foresight in international, political and environmental problems," he said...
...should have known the tradition of the double-disaster weekend would stand, who would have guessed that a new dimension would be added to the Carbon Copy debacle? Who had the foresight to see that Harvard not only would endure the same denouement--back-to-back losses--but would follow the same dismal plot-line both nights...
History is full of such expensive errors, of cities and civilizations brought low because their leaders failed to exercise even ordinary foresight. Any good agronomist, for example, could have predicted that overplanting of semiarid land would lead to the vast Midwestern dust bowls of the '30s. Anybody with ordinary intelligence could have discerned in the '50s the potential for violence that resulted in the black explosions of the '60s. No disaster, however, has been more visible from a distance-or caught people more off guard-than the energy crisis. The failure to head it off, despite loud...
...deeds surrounding Watergate began to spill into public light last April, Wally Hickel began to look like a prophet. The Anchorage Times editorialized in praise of his foresight, his book about his frustrated struggles within the Nixon Administration (Who Owns America?) found a clutch of new readers, and Hickel began to be the most sought-after Republican speaker in the state. His new status is so solid that many of Alaska's southeastern business men are urging him to run for Governor, and oil interests have already pledged their support if he decides to run for the Senate. Both...
...faculty member, however, had the foresight to worry that radical economics might catch fire elsewhere, and Harvard would be late in "jumping on the bandwagon...