Word: presciently
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...curios of creation, whether of the natural world or of the more inorganic human one in that hard to define genre of the personal essay. His field of vision is broad. Most adept at chronicling the my read delicate changes and processes of the wilderness. Hoagland is also prescient in his observations of the doings of his own species. With equal amounts of aplomb, he explores topics as varied as the mating habits of the porcupine and the divorce customs of the questionably wise home sapiens...
Karma is the physical-fitness guru of Canyon Ranch. Named Karma 39 years ago by her wonderfully prescient father, she loves her work, loves the "aura and tranquillity" of the ranch, and loves the guests no matter what. "You are carrying a lot of anger," she advises the grumblers. They melt at once. "I'm 63, I'm an old, fat smoker, I'm out of control," explodes the most discontented. "Awww," coos Karma, "you need some warm fuzzy." The man retires peacefully dreaming of a massage...
...what emerges from the papers that came from the "nest of spies," as the Iranian annotations put it, is a contradictory and confused attempt by U.S. diplomats to comprehend the Shah's regime, the rebellion and the post-revolution government of Ayatullah Khomeini. Some analyses were chillingly prescient, others dangerously naive...
...sense that it was being used as a conduit to serve Allen's ends. Questioners rummaged once again through the familiar story of the unreported $1,000 Japanese tip and all the evasions and revisions since then. Marvin Kalb, coolly and skillfully closed the program with two prescient questions: "Do you feel that you have been wronged by anyone in this Administration?" "No." "By the press?" ". . . Terribly irresponsible things have happened. At our house, which has been staked out every morning beginning at 5:30 by media people, trees have been climbed to look in bedroom windows. An attempt...
...James R. Jones, the pleasantly determined Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma who chairs the House Budget Committee. In the battle over figures that now commands the front pages and more time than the Join Chancellors probably would like to give it on the nightly news, Jones has been particularly prescient and responsible. He saw the budget crunch coming back in 1972 when he was first elected to Congress. "The Government even then was running away from the people," he says...