Word: foresights
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...selection of Taylor for the $200,000-plus post again raised questions about CBS management's foresight in grooming its own top executives for broad responsibilities. Most of them are heavily broadcast-oriented, even though in recent years the company has grown highly diversified and now gets more than half of its sales from such nonbroadcast divisions as book publishing, baseball (the New York Yankees), musical instrument manufacturing and motion pictures. Thus, CBS's prime need at the top is financial expertise, a field in which Taylor became almost an overnight star...
...debacle, shepherding the Democrats toward party reform and modernization of convention rules, holding the line on financial and emotional expenditure during the primary fights of the campaign year. O'Brien would be a key broker and troubleshooter in case the convention finds itself in deadlock. He showed much foresight in scheduling the event for July, earlier than the 1968 convention, in order to provide the largest possible margin of time in which to heal the wounds of Miami Beach before the election...
...hand in time to meet the extended handshake of the Maine Senator. After cramming obtrusively into the small diner, the hoards of reporters followed the Senator to the pizza parlor havens where, much to the delight of the eager photographers, Muskie ate a piece of pizza. (All credit for foresight goes to the A.P., who had pizzas waiting for them which had been ordered that morning...
...held similar positions on the war because each had voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. But what Muskie tactfully ignored is the fact that the other two Senators, particularly McGovern, have ardently opposed the war since its inception, while he curiously did not have the foresight to malign America's involvement until it had become a Republican...
Scientific insight and knowledge point out the inevitable conclusion that we are accidents, unique but not particularly special. Monod, as a philosopher-biologist, is in the position to point this out. What western man does with this information is anyone's guess. Foresight is another casualty of Monod's theory of random biochemistry...