Word: prescient
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...address at Israel’s national military cemetery in Jerusalem roughly a month after the air strike, Begin predicted that the name “Osirak” would be “remembered and cherished by generations to come.” His speech was remarkably prescient, given the events of the past two decades. After the Gulf War ended in 1991, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney specifically thanked Israel for the 1981 action that had made victory possible. Indeed, the Economist magazine recently noted that if Saddam “had already had nuclear weapons...
...morning is still so seared in our minds here at Time that all the months after that seem to have flashed by. Over the past 12 months, we have run 21 covers devoted to 9/11 and its consequences, ranging from anthrax to Afghanistan, from George W. Bush to a prescient FBI agent in Minnesota named Coleen Rowley. In each case we tried to give you a front-row seat to history, breaking news and making sense out of tumult...
...Though I might not check in as often as everyone else, I will try to make my messages memorable. See ya, Ned, a.k.a. the tall blonde freshman.” As I look back and try to make sense of the last four years, that message is more prescient than I usually give myself credit for. Harvard e-mail has indeed been enjoyable, weird and memorable. And I am still tall and blonde...
...Neill's "The Emperor Jones." He played Joe and sang "Ol' Man River" in stage and film versions of "Show Boat." He was a star in American and British movies, a magnetic concert basso, a sensation as Othello opposite Peggy Ashcroft in London and Uta Hagen on Broadway, a prescient advocate for African self-determination. He was also a stubborn apologist for communism, Stalin-style. In one Promethean personality were packed the power, glamour, pathos and tragedy of black dreams and leftist myopia in the 20th century...
...makes have spurred the NBA to move in a better direction in television, marketing, ticket pricing. He's in the forefront." And while NBA commissioner David Stern has levied huge fines against Cuban, Stern says, "we've had open and good discussions about refereeing." He adds, "Mark very presciently focused on the whole issue of audiocasting on the Internet, and it would not surprise me if his HDTV venture wasn't equally prescient...