Word: presciently
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...sitting in for vacationing Art Director Walter Bernard, began sketching on his pad even as the editors talked. Within minutes, he had drawn a cover image to accompany the story. His inspiration was the Russian bear that had loomed pictorially over Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan in a prescient cover he had designed last January for the "Crescent of Crisis." Says Hoglund: "Back then we were careful to make the bear look interested but not too threatening, no bared teeth. This time, I saw the bear reaching into Afghanistan, and there was no doubt about it-his paw had claws." Hoglund...
...Watanjar. The notion of the Soviets flying Karmal home from V-SYGMA Eastern Europe seemed too ham handed and provocative, given the Communists' obvious need to broaden the political base of the Kabul regime. An armed Soviet takeover of the country was discounted for the same reason. More prescient intelligence would have enabled the U.S. to mount a diplomatic offensive to deter the Soviets, or at least to prepare countermeasures in advance...
Nixon Agonistes by Garry Wills: a prescient analysis of the pre Watergate President...
...everyone from drivers to drinkers was victimized, the Chicken Little pessimists, who had bet on bullion and other precious metals, were made to look prescient. Among the winners were people who had shrewdly put away dimes, quarters and half dollars minted before 1965; at year's end an original $1,000 in those almost pure silver coins was worth $16,300. But anybody who had put his money in a savings bank was a sucker; a $1,000 deposit declined in real value during the year to about $900, after inflation and taxes on the interest receipts...
...inside cover of The New Republic. Alert for injustice and foolishness, Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor, the pseudonymous TRB, has wielded the "royal we" for more than 35 years now. TRB: Views and Perspectives on the Presidency provides the first anthologized look at this sometimes prescient, often witty and always rational sage of the Washington scene...