Word: presciently
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Some investments approach that ideal. Allstate Insurance Co.'s private placement division maintained a growth rate of 40% a year during most of the 1960s by making prescient purchases in such companies as Memorex, Teledyne and Control Data. Chicago Financier E.F. ("Ned") Heizer has put his Heizer Corp. into a 32% ownership of Amdahl Corp., a computer maker that has booked $30 million of orders in its first year of production. The biggest hit of all was made by former Harvard Business School Professor Georges F. Doriot, who launched American Research and Development Corp. in 1946 as the nation...
...book's first section, treating the period before Virginia Woolf's marriage, responds better than the second part of his method. But his approach spares the biography from being overly prescient or oppressed by unsupportable conclusions...
...some of the provisions might need some tightening up and that Kissinger would have to nail down the understandings and protocols for the cease-fire machinery. But he was pleased, approved the plan and ordered Kissinger to Saigon to sell it to Thieu. The only dark cloud was a prescient warning by the CIA to expect serious trouble from Thieu...
...campaigns, the miracle of a moon landing-all these events were given an instant presence that no magazine could hope to duplicate. Yet, television is not quite photojournalism after all. There is something missing from even the finest TV coverage: perspective, among other things, but the subjects of that prescient phrase, the "shadows in the jungle and on the moon," linger on the page long after they have left the screen or the retina...
...bench and settles down to meditate on the future of rus in urbe among the tattered newspapers and paper cups surrounding some graffiti-sprayed rock. But the fact is that New York, to the extent that it is still habitable, remains so partly by virtue of Olmsted's prescient and humane planning...