Word: presciently
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chance?" I asked Alice, who wrote the prescient TIME cover story on Hughes before the games...
Indeed, the Crimson senior proved prescient...
Fritz Lang’s films are films about how things look and how we see in the modern world, with modern means. They reflect on the problems of perception, a perception increasingly mediated by machines, institutions and political forces. Lang is a particularly astute and prescient observer of the ways in which technological networks permeate social spaces and human lives. For no other filmmaker are the mass media so unabashedly and insistently the defining factor in how people experience the world,” Rentschler said...
...Harel's prescient words underscore the fact that the cease-fire proclaimed by Arafat last December, which had been relatively successful, has now been voided on the ground. Even the Israeli military acknowledged at the New Year that there had been a sharp decline in violent incidents since Arafat's televised speech before Christmas. But a week ago the militant Islamist organization Hamas signaled the end of its own undertaking to suspend actions inside Israel, by attacking a military post on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. Then came Karni's slaying - Israel insists he was planning terror...
...week's end, though, the Guantanamo issue had been supplanted on the front pages by gruesome tales of the terror attack in the northern Israeli town of Hadera. Haaretz commentator Amos Harel could be forgiven for his eerily prescient prediction of the aftermath of last weekend's assassination of Fatah militant Raed Karmi: "There was no need for a degree in political strategy to make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," Harel wrote a day before the Hadera attack. "Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number...