Word: presciently
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beginning, a middle and an end. We always cover that story, and this year was no exception. In fact, in October 2006--more than two years before Election Day and four months before Barack Obama even declared he was running--we forecast the final chapter: Joe Klein's prescient cover story, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President...
...another era, this seemed wonkish and worthy, hardly the stuff of stirring political phrasemaking. Today, though, Brown looks prescient. "We must now go further and develop new global structures for the global age. The events of recent months have pointed out inadequacies in our understanding of the interrelationships between financial markets and between countries." That could be a Brown sound bite from yesterday, but it comes from a 1998 speech on Asia's market meltdown. Speaking to TIME last spring, he worried about the danger of "national supervisors and global flows of capital ... Nobody has quite understood...
...painfully reminded that I should have heeded his warnings about the turmoil that lay ahead. While most of us were lulled by the financial stability and heady growth that preceded the recent meltdown, Weiss, who is also professor emeritus of economics at Boston University, was a prescient doomsayer. In 2005, when everyone else was bullish, he wrote to his shareholders that global markets looked "very treacherous" and warned about rampant borrowing "to speculate in real estate." In 2006, he derided the notion that "business cycles have been banished" and spoke of the danger of "extreme events in which the entire...
...says Stevens. "He'll go in and not hesitate to prosecute what he sees as McCain's poor foreign policy judgments. That's what he did in his acceptance speech [at the Democratic Convention]. I think he feels it. I think he'll argue that his judgment was more prescient on Iraq, and he'll go from there." If he does, adds Stevens, "that exchange could be a real opportunity for McCain...
...tipped some close 2006 midterm races. But since then, the biggest breakthroughs have come in techniques that do not use embryos at all but instead reprogram adult cells. Do proponents look reckless for putting all their emphasis on embryos, which even some prominent scientists find morally troubling? Or prescient, because the basic knowledge gleaned from embryo research is what may help make it unnecessary someday...