Word: presciently
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...What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh, my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?’” When the quote resurfaced last weekend, the prescient proconsul hastily apologized for his earlier foresight, saying his criticism of Bush had been “unfair.” (Read: “inopportune in light of the impending election...
...light of the past years' revelations about mutual-fund abuses, Bogle seems remarkably prescient. He likes to say that his greatest accomplishment was "putting the mutual back in mutual funds." As he wrote in his senior thesis at Princeton, a financial enterprise must serve investors "in the most efficient, honest and economical way possible." In his 50-year career he has never wavered from those principles. Bogle's success in making Vanguard an industry giant demonstrates that it is possible to do right by the customer and still do well. --By Eliot Spitzer, attorney general of New York
...Democratic primary voters—whose prescient sense of electability led to the famously successful McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis nominations—the Kerry pitch worked...
...keeping your promises. There is nothing nuanced about exhausting remedies that give you legitimacy and consent to go to war. And I refuse ever to accept the notion that anything I've suggested with respect to Iraq was nuanced. It was clear. It was precise. It was, in fact, prescient. It was ahead of the curve about what the difficulties were. And that is precisely what a President is supposed to be. I think I was right, 100% correct, about how you should have done Iraq...
...rejected erbitux the next day, and ImClone shares promptly dropped 16%. The prescient ImClone sales immediately caught the attention of compliance officers at Merrill Lynch, who on Dec. 31 asked Bacanovic about it. He said it had something to do with tax-loss selling. Later he changed his story, saying he and Stewart had a pre-existing agreement to sell the stock if it dipped to $60, which it did that day. "On Monday, Dec. 31, he said nothing, nothing about any $60 price agreement," assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schachter argued in his summation. "Four days after the sale, Peter...