Word: presciently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their losses because bearish managers had moved away from cyclical stocks, such as steel and tires, and into defensive shares in food and drug companies, which are less vulnerable in an economic downturn. Some funds that specialize in electric and telephone utilities dropped 12% or less. Other prescient managers had built up their cash reserves, which lowered their exposure to the market and allowed them to pay off any redemptions without being forced to sell stocks at a loss. Says John Neff, who manages the Windsor Fund: "We saw a correction coming, so we had plenty of gunpowder stashed away...
...worth of shares in high-technology firms like IBM, Microsoft and Apple, with no intention of selling at all. Said Brown: "Now I'm just going to sit on them and watch and wait." By Friday the doctor's first foray into stocks was already beginning to look prescient: on paper at least, he had made a profit...
...another Great Depression, but a recession is more likely now. -- In an exclusive interview, Treasury Secretary James Baker gives the Administration' s view of the tumult. -- One way or another, everyone is in the market, and anyone can lose. -- Wall Street' s investment houses brace for hard times. -- Some prescient and lucky investors survive the crash in fine shape. -- Six ways to curb America' s budget and trade deficits. -- 1929: the way it was the last time...
...what seemed groundbreaking in 1971 has become mainstream, even slightly dated, the reason is that Follies profoundly influenced much of what followed. The show remains at once a brilliant pastiche and a prescient farewell to a style of musical that became the most popular form of theater in history but that no one seems willing or able to write anymore. The guts of the story, as in the first version, are plaintive solos for disillusioned women: Broadway Baby, in which an old show girl (Margaret Courtenay) recalls youthful struggles in a tinkly, ironic forerunner of A Chorus Line's What...
George Kennan, the prescient diplomat who formulated the U.S. doctrine of containment shortly after the end of World War II, ruminated at a reunion of State Department planners about how these global changes have made the East- West ideological struggle less relevant to how the world is ordered. Says Kennan, who in recent years has adopted a more benign view of the Soviet Union: "The whole principle of containment as that term was conceived when it was used by me back in 1946 is almost entirely irrelevant to the problems we and the rest of the civilized world face today...