Word: presciently
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...interview with TIME last week, President Jimmy Carter was asked why his advisers had not warned him that his human rights policy would annoy the Soviets. Replied Carter with a broad smile: I will have to search the pages of TIME to see if you were materially more prescient than I was six or seven months...
...have been more prescient, but neither were we especially surprised by theSoviet reaction. At any rate, we have carefully monitored Carter's policytoward the Soviet Union and other powers. This week we undertake a major assessment of Carter's international performance to date. In accompanying articles we discuss secretary of State Cyrus Vance and how he fits in to the mechanism that shape foreign policy, and we report the ideas of National Security Adviser Zbigmew Brzezinski...
...Orpheum on May 13. You can go to see Dan Fogelberg at the Music Hall on June 9 at 8 pm, since all your exams will be over--messed up Chem 20, didn't you? (read this again the next day, and see if I wasn't prescient). The Crusaders will be at the Berklee Performance Center on May 20 at 8 pm. "The Crusaders apologize for having to cancel their last concert, but promise to make this a performance Boston will long remember!" That's what the ad in the Phoenix said--ha, ha. Procol Harum with Flora Purim...
Bernstein was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Heyden White, daughter of Theodore White, TIME'S correspondent in China from 1939 to 1945, and co-author of Thunder Out of China (1946), a prescient report on the eventual Communist takeover. Heyden White, who grew up hearing about China from her father, was enthralled by Witke's insights: "We can now learn Chiang Ch'ing's own version of what was happening during those turbulent times...
...title was perhaps a little selfconscious, for so princely an author. Still, when Jordan's bantam King Hussein decided to write his 1962 autobiography, he was remarkably prescient in borrowing Shakespeare's line, "Uneasy Lies the Head." Half of Hussein's kingdom was to fall to Israel after the 1967 war; Palestinian assassins regularly took potshots at him; other Arab rulers virtually ostracized him after Hussein expelled Palestinian fedayeen from his country in 1970. On top of everything else, Jordan's economy weakened as prices for phosphate, the kingdom's principal resource, dropped...