Word: presciently
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RICHARD NIXON predicted it months ago: 1970, he told his aides, would be the Administration's time of trouble and testing. He was only too prescient. Indochina, the Middle East, the economy, the students, the Senate have taken turns showing their immunity to presidential will. The resulting image of lapsed Executive control has greatly added to White House problems. But bad news often feeds as much on itself as on events. Despite his difficulties in a number of areas, the President has vigorously begun to assert his leadership in one of the most crucial areas of all, the running...
...that entitled homeowners to sell or rent to anyone they pleased-a not-so-roundabout way of legalizing discrimination against Negroes. The Supreme Court affirmed Traynor's opinion, and in 1968 Congress outlawed racial discrimination in most U.S. housing. An earlier Traynor opinion may some day prove equally prescient for the nation. Almost seven years ago, he joined his court in ordering California school boards to take positive action to end de facto racial segregation in schools, even if such segregation is caused only by housing patterns. Only a handful of Northern state legislatures have yet gone that...
...nonviolent and equipped with an animated moral, the way Snoopy is equipped with a tail. Charlie loses the National Spelling Bee and slinks back to town, looking for all the world like an extinguished light bulb. And behold!-life goes on. In spite of failure and humiliation, observes the prescient Linus, "the world didn't come to an end." It is a message that should not be missed by sensitive children. Neither should the movie...
...George Orwell's chillingly prescient novel 1984, the totalitarian state is seen as a form of organization that is assured of complete, self-perpetuating supremacy. According to Andrei Amalric, a young (31) and as yet little-known Russian writer, Orwell was way off. In a controversial essay that only recently reached the West, Amalric observes that the once monolithic Soviet state is already "distending itself and disintegrating like sour dough." Between 1980 and 1985, he predicts, it will explode in "anarchy, violence and intense national hatred...
...Chairman prescient? Could he have anticipated by more than four decades an ingenious scheme just conceived by University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone? If Mao had carried his maxim a little farther, says Stone in a tongue-in-cheek letter to Geotimes, China could have threatened distant enemies with mass destruction years before the development of nuclear warheads and long-range missiles...