Word: presciently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone from drivers to drinkers was victimized, the Chicken Little pessimists, who had bet on bullion and other precious metals, were made to look prescient. Among the winners were people who had shrewdly put away dimes, quarters and half dollars minted before 1965; at year's end an original $1,000 in those almost pure silver coins was worth $16,300. But anybody who had put his money in a savings bank was a sucker; a $1,000 deposit declined in real value during the year to about $900, after inflation and taxes on the interest receipts...
...inside cover of The New Republic. Alert for injustice and foolishness, Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor, the pseudonymous TRB, has wielded the "royal we" for more than 35 years now. TRB: Views and Perspectives on the Presidency provides the first anthologized look at this sometimes prescient, often witty and always rational sage of the Washington scene...
...institutions he had originally overthrown. But he had set a goal beyond human capacity. In his last months, bereft of speech, able to act only a few hours a day, he had passion strong enough for one last outburst against the pragmatists. And then that great, demonic, prescient, overwhelming personality disappeared like the great Emperor Qin Shihuang-di (Ch'in Shih Huang-ti), with whom he often compared himself while dreading the oblivion which was his fate. And his words to Nixon, like so much of what he said and attempted, had the ring of prophecy: "I have only...
Even when he was U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara thought the nation had reached "the point at which it does not buy more security for itself simply by buying more military hardware." The greatest threat, he declared in an eerily prescient 1966 speech, comes from rebellious violence in poor countries. During his eleven years as president of the World Bank, McNamara's convictions have deepened, and last week, appearing at the University of Chicago to accept a $25,000 prize for promoting international understanding, the former Defense Secretary declared that "excessive military spending can reduce security rather...
...crisis, for example, Alan Greenspan, a leading consultant and former chief presidential economic adviser, was warning us about it, joking that King Faisal's picture would soon be on all the oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike. That instinct proved to be all too prescient." The board's latest predictions are summarized in this week's Economy & Business section. One forecast is not included, though the board is unanimous about it: Economics Editor Loeb is in no danger of an energy shortage...