Word: presciently
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...something about it. When he started building public parks, nobody else was doing it, and his idea that they should be recreation areas rather than simple nature preserves was humane and revolutionary. At the time most people were justifiably delighted. As he pressed on, Moses did have a few prescient critics who clearly foresaw that his highways would encourage more cars and ruin public transport as people shifted from rail to rubber. Moses scorned them of course. Visions of cloverleafs danced in his head. He was, moreover, increasingly isolated by arrogance, power and growing deafness...
...might have been a prescient choice by the other members of the Corporation, for Calkins was the right man at the right time during the strike the next year. He used much of his considerable energy masterminding skillful press releases for the Corporation, meeting with students and faculty, and even marched into The Crimson one day to type out a reply to what he claimed was a distortion of his position on a Yard poster...
...both Columbia and Yale) and as a combative chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the New Deal. (When stock-exchange representatives once argued long and repetitively in favor of self-regulation, Douglas closed them off with an explosive "Hooey!") He will also be remembered as a prescient conservationist and, of course, as the court's most activist liberal judge from the beginning...
...spreading countermeasure to inflation seems to be gardening. In cities, suburbs and the countryside, people are seeking out vacant plots and turning lawns into cabbage patches. There has been nothing like it since the World War II victory-garden movement. The Jack Hollons of Dallas are among the most prescient and ambitious of the amateur farmers. Anticipating a wheat shortage last fall, they planted a tenth of an acre - their front yard - last fall. They even tried to mill the wheat themselves but had problems. So they took their 100-lb. crop to a commercial miller, and Mrs. Hollon...
...these fiscally prescient pipe-dreams come true, by far the most profitable have been the amusement parks...