Word: presciently
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...scientists, Vannevar Bush, delivered this wisdom for the ages: "There need be little fear of an intercontinental missile in the form of a pilotless aircraft." And many of the instant critics of Reagan's idea, like former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, were not all that prescient when conducting the public's business...
Posthumous but prescient comments on the Met's new Macbeth
Analyst Sanford Garrett, at the time one of the few remaining bulls on Xerox, found the announcement so jarring that he took the company's stock off the buy list at Paine Webber, the Wall Street securities firm. Xerox stock, which made millionaires of investors prescient enough to buy in the years after the plain-paper office copier was introduced in 1959, sold as high as $172 in 1972. It closed at only $37.75 last week, even after moving up in the big market rally; it was at $29 two months ago when the Dow Jones industrial average began...
...liberal idealism that characterized his first four Making of the President books and In Search of History, his remarkable 1978 account of his personal odyssey. That book ended with a capsule account of the 1960 presidential race and White's portrait of triumphant John Kennedy as the most prescient, commanding politician he had encountered. Early in his final work, White does mouth some of the same hero-worship, saying that JFK alone might qualify as "a rare personality--a Roosevelt, a Churchill, a Mao, a Monet--[who] might alter the direction of the forces, and make his own life...
...times Tocqueville was so eerily prescient that he seemed to have had a private view of the future. His comment about critics of the Federal Government-"It was by promising to weaken it that one won the right to control it"-might have been written about the 1980 election. Reeves' observations have a cogency of their own. Discussing what he perceives as the modern tendency to appeal to government to solve all ills, including governmental ones, he writes that "government, trusted and feared, obeyed and avoided, revered and disdained, had become very much like a religion. Its role...