Word: prescient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that rambunctious child of the sidewalks of New York," have provided New Yorkers with one of the most exciting name-calling, go-for-the-jugular campaigns in years. If he wakes up Wednesday morning as the Empire State's junior Senator-elect, Moynihan would do well to remember his prescient observation in a 1969 address called "Politics As the Art of the Impossible...
...through intelligence, not faith, that Carter and his young campaign manager Hamilton Jordan analyzed this year's lineup of primaries and devised a meticulous, prescient plan for using them to win the nomination. And it was intelligence, of course, that enabled Carter to grasp the intricacies of many, though certainly not all, national issues while simultaneously campaigning around the country...
...masterful pastiche of Fremen, the inhabitants of Arrakis and the best fighters in the universe, Mentats, human computers, and the royal witches of the Bene Gesserit. Dune follows Paul Atreides as he becomes leader of the Fremen, wins control of the addictive spice-drug melange, which gives longevity and prescient vision to its users and is only found on Arrakis, and wins an intergalactic empire, all in best Errol Flynn fashion. But it also accurately and believably details the training and reserve one must acquire to become an emperor and the political intrigues one must initiate to remain...
...posterity. Though it jangled with a bumptious satire reminiscent of Austen's youthful burlesques, it seemed to project something both ambitious and new. When it was finally published in 1925 under the title Sanditon-named for the seaside resort town of its setting-E.M. Forster saluted the prescient way the book portrayed nature as "a geographic and economic force." Virginia Woolf said that if completed, Sanditon would have shown Austen to be a forerunner of Henry James and Proust...
Most critics would exempt business magazines and other specialized publications from such censure. Their reportage is generally detailed and accurate, though not necessarily very prescient or original. And even the business press is generally reluctant to question the basic assumptions under which Government and private economists work. The problem is posed with distressing regularity as merely a choice between slowing down or speeding up the economy through conventional techniques...