Word: presciently
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Feinstein was prescient enough to make illegal immigration a pet issue, which gives her some political cover in her unexpectedly tight race against conservative Santa Barbara Congressman Michael Huffington. But the same cannot be said of Democrat Kathleen Brown, who in a struggle to unseat Governor Pete Wilson finds herself slipping over what has become the most hazardous issue of the 1994 elections. If California runs true to form, leading America's social revolutions through the ballot box, it will pass Proposition 187, an implacable, baldly unconstitutional plan to cut off services to illegal immigrants, from schools to health care...
Instead, Phillips began writing a newspaper column, founded American Political Report, the newsletter he still publishes and edits, and started work on his series of highly influential books. The latest one may prove to be prescient, but at the very least, as you will see from the excerpt inside, it is profoundly thought provoking...
Patrick, the youngest panelist, said he was a product of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s rather than a participant. But he cautioned against looking at the search for civil rights with nostalgia. "The civil rights movement is as vivid and as prescient and as essential today as it ever was," he said...
...more ways than one, Eliot's words were prescient. Thanks largely to his contributions, the 20th century has seen Harvard solidify its reputation as America's leading institution of higher learning, by virtually every measure. Year after year, Harvard students win more Rhodes Scholarships and its faculty garner more Nobel Prizes than any other university in the world...
...Hillary Clinton parlayed $1,000 into nearly $100,000 in the volatile commodities markets -- almost a whopping 10,000% return in just 10 months. Unlikely? Here are some comparably prescient, though longer-term investments...