Word: presciently
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...able to survive this harsh environment on its own is impressive, though much of the feat owes to a savvy decision in 2006 to mortgage all of its assets right down to its blue-oval trademark in exchange for $26 billion," says Toprak. "Taking out the mortgage proved remarkably prescient and allowed the company to avoid bankruptcy as the financial crisis swallowed its domestic rivals...
...first Chechen war, they went back, at the prodding of then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In a move reminiscent of Tolstoy's hundred-year-old Hadji Murad - which was also set in a strife-ridden Caucasus - the chief separatist, Akhmad Kadyrov, like the title character in the prescient short novel, switched sides at the beginning of the second Chechen war and crushed the rebellion. Assassinated in May 2004, Kadyrov was replaced by his son. (From TIME's archives, read about the massacre of the innocents in Beslan...
...London mosques for research for The Black Album, scribbling down notes at Friday sermons was weirdo stuff indeed. Today, with London still scarred from the 2005 bombings by British-born terrorists and the far-right British National Party winning seats in recent European parliamentary elections, the novel seems spookily prescient. Though its themes of radical faith and alienation endure, Kureishi's mosque visits didn't. One Friday, he recalls, the mullah at a mosque in London's East End warned that "there are spies and journalists in our midst," after which Kureishi was tossed out "by four blokes, who picked...
...seemingly prescient coincidence during Paris fashion week, Riccardo Tisci, creative director for Givenchy, showed a collection that incorporated black gowns, veils, and stunning metallic face coverings, undoubtedly references to traditional Muslim garb. This creative take on Muslim attire defies the idea that burkas deny individuality or “deprive all identity...
...with the world fully steeped in financial turmoil, that report in the Boston Globe—which suggested that Faust was distancing herself from the confrontational, fast-moving style of her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, and rethinking the University’s outsized Allston plans—seems remarkably prescient. The University has not only struggled to make ends meet in an unprecedented fiscal crisis, but it has also reined in its visionary—and what some have criticized as financially irresponsible—plans to construct a new campus across the Charles. In November, Faust wrote that Harvard...