Word: prescient
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...proud to see Brown University appoint such a worthy and deserving president. The position is perfect for Simmons--she will surely be able to continue her work of opening elite private institutions to a more diverse atmosphere. We are confident that Brown's choice will prove to be a prescient...
...doesn't leave much to talk about on the campaign trail. Jim Lehrer was prescient enough to devote a full 45 minutes of the debate to foreign policy, and the challenger thrilled supporters by sounding acceptably presidential on the subject. But after Bush made so much of America "speaking with one voice" during any ongoing foreign crisis, what's a little ol' Texas governor to do in the meantime? Mark time on Medicare in swing-state land (Pennsylvania, specifically) and hope voters make it deep enough into their newspapers to read about...
Well, you may. Moynihan has a history there; his observations in the '60s on the deterioration of the black American family were controversial and prescient. Of course, it was not only the black family Moynihan was referring to on Sunday...
...young, and he moved around a lot. Back home in Milwaukee, in high school, he says, "I was to myself until I played basketball." He didn't actually play organized hoops until his senior year. For Sprewell the NBA was the goal of somewhat fanciful--or incredibly prescient--career planning. "My girlfriend [at the time] was pregnant with my oldest daughter, so I needed to go to college," he recalls. "The best way for me to get there was basketball or football. In my senior year good players left the hoop team--a perfect opportunity...
...This is another sign that the economy seems to be slowing a bit from its red-hot run," says TIME senior financial writer Bernard Baumohl. Housing starts, explains Baumohl, are among the most interest-sensitive components of the economy, and tend to be a particularly prescient overall financial indicator. "When interest rates go up, as they have been," says Baumohl, "the first sectors to register a slowdown are car and housing purchases." In other words, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's penchant for quarter-point hikes may have finally eased the American public's seemingly insatiable taste for big-ticket items...