Word: presciently
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...playwright, Ödön von Horváth, had good reasons to be prescient. The son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, he settled in Berlin in 1924, completing Tales from the Vienna Woods in 1930. Tales is being given its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater in an intelligent, well-articulated production that scants none of the play's corrosive undertones...
...group of prescient liberals including Michael Walzer, professor of Government, and Martin Peretz, then-lecturer on Social Studies, took out newspaper ads supporting incumbent Republican Governor Francis Sargent against his ADA-endorsed Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis. The ads basically pointed out that Sargent was a good liberal who supported social welfare programs for the poor, and that a bird in the hand, etc... Dukakis won anyway, 65 per cent to 35 per cent. And the worst nightmares of the liberals have come true...
...coming," concedes Richard Ferris, president of United, the largest airline in the non-Communist world. "If anyone had told me last year that we would be up 21% in traffic so far this year, we would have straitjacketed him and locked him away." Now such a prescient person would probably be promoted to Senior Vice President for planning...
...contemptuous detachment in the past. In several of his books set in the Third World, his jaded protagonists have stood in direct contrast to the crusading idealists who set out to save the world and end up wreaking more havoc than happiness. The most memorable and, sadly, the most prescient example of this theme came in Greene's The Quiet American, about Vietnam in the days when the Americans were still only supplying arms to the French. The reformist zealot there was a clean-cut, self-serious American adviser named Pyle who was bent on saving the Vietnamese for Democracy...
Chrysler's 245,000 stockholders certainly hope that Brown's prediction is prescient. The third biggest carmaker has stumbled through some difficult years. Always highly leveraged (longterm debt has increased from $360 million to more than $1 billion over the past decade), Chrysler has had a curiously erratic record. Even though the industry has performed spectacularly this year, Chrysler's third-quarter earnings slumped 55.8%, compared with last year's. For the first nine months of 1977, Chrysler's profits were down almost 30%. Moreover, Chrysler expects losses of some $37 million in Great Britain...