Word: prescient
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...federal forebodings proved prescient: Madison did fail, and was taken over by federal regulators on March 2, 1989. A few days before, Vincent Foster, then a partner in Rose Law Firm, wrote to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which had temporarily taken responsibility for dealing with failed thrifts, seeking a contract for Rose to represent the regulators. Rose in fact got the business, and Webster Hubbell, a partner who has since become Associated U.S. Attorney General, brought a $6 million suit on behalf of the regulators against Madison's accountants; he settled for $1 million...
From today's perspective, those words seem prescient. After a 45-17 waxing at the hands of William and Mary last weekend, the big question for Harvard in today's game against 1992 Patriot League champion Lafayette concerns resilience...
Sega, meanwhile, has made a couple of deals that could prove prescient. In one, Time Warner and Tele-Communications Inc. have agreed to create a special Sega channel on their cable-TV systems that would give subscribers access to 50 games each month. In another important pact, Sega has allied itself with AT&T to create a special cartridge called the Edge 16 that would enable Sega Genesis owners to compete with similarly equipped players anywhere in the world over ordinary telephone lines...
...part, U S West has made what some see as a prescient investment in % the movies and TV shows that will be carried over the information highways no matter who owns them. According to W. Russell Neuman, a communications expert at Tufts University, U S West has profited from the lesson Sony learned when it lost the VCR wars a decade earlier. Sony's Beta lost out to VHS because its competitors made better deals with the folks who held the intellectual- property rights -- in this case, the movie companies. That, says Neuman, is why Sony bought CBS Records...
...objective is the re-creation of the Bosnian state -- a fiction with no history of independence, a state composed of ethnic groups with a demonstrated and murderous inability to live together -- then intervention is sheer madness. Well-intentioned madness, but madness nonetheless. Perhaps a year ago a prescient West could have stationed forces to prevent the current war. But that time is long past. The Bosnian egg cannot be unscrambled. Intervention to reconstitute the broken Bosnian state would require enormous force, entail enormous risk, and offer no chance of success...