Word: presciently
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...With a vote of 168 to 14—with 11 abstentions—professors welcomed the new general education program with a mix of enthusiasm and exhaustion. Menand’s early sense of victory had proved prescient, but the cultural historian admitted he is now anxious about the future of the program...
...There is one glaring omission: Tiger Woods. He has changed the face of golf. He is a role model for an entire generation of black youngsters. Woods has remained unspoiled and is an articulate hands-on leader of the foundation that bears his name. His late father was prescient when he said Woods' contribution to society will extend way beyond what he accomplishes on the golf course-as exciting as that may be. Lee de la Fuente, New York City...
...want to be three steps ahead." But now his scientific bent has been vindicated. The Internet is as big a deal as he said it would be. Global warming is as scary as he had warned. He wasn't being messianic, as people used to say, just prescient. And today he's still the same serious guy he always was, but the context has changed around him. He used to spend his time in Washington, but now his tech work takes him to Silicon Valley, to the campuses of Apple and Google, where his kind of intellectual firepower is celebrated...
...Rounding out the picture is Tommy (Roy A. Kimmey ’09), an impoverished orphan raised by nuns (and, in a somewhat prescient plot point for a play more than a decade old, molested by priests), Tommy, who works as a waiter, gets engaged to Emma after knowing her for three weeks. Grace hires him, complete with skirt and apron, to replace an absent maid—both in order to help him out financially and to get to know him better. Unfortunately for Emma, he becomes more enamored of Todd, his uniform, and his role as a maid...
...While some may read the blog with skepticism, Bradley’s predictions have at times proved uncannily prescient. Back in April of last year, when the presidential search was just beginning, Bradley wrote that “an early frontrunner” was a little-known dean presiding over a small research institution: Drew G. Faust...