Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would vote to convict him cannot be certain. But even if he were to be acquitted, the process would leave him and the country devastated. Events have achieved an alarming momentum; additional facts that would be brought out under subpoena power at an impeachment trial could strike in many unforeseen and dangerous directions...
...Barring unforeseen environmental advances, the problems of the power project's ecological effects and the sale's impact upon donors will remain when the final court case is decided. Barring an unforeseen change of heart, Consolidated Edison will still want its white elephant project on the Hudson River. And the University, in the end, will have to decide whether or not to co-operate...
...Events may intervene in undetermined ways or for an unpredictable time. A worsening and continuing Middle East situation could help Nixon back from the precipice on which he now stands. A brightening of the economic picture or some other unforeseen natural or human event could give him surer footing...
...rule, American courts shy away from handing down a far-reaching decision on a constitutional question if they can find another solution. Better to search for a compromise than to spell out a judgment that could cause unforeseen problems later...
...Harvard's policies, of course, and in some cases these decisions were far from unanimous to begin with (several of them represent overrulings of the ACSR). Some issues become more widely publicized with time; others--military contracting by corporations, for example--recede in public interest. Nevertheless, barring the unforeseen--another building occupation like the one in the Spring of 1972 which helped bring about Bok's new system, or the withdrawal of a large gift by a donor who deemed the University's policies as a shareholder unsatisfactory (this recently happened at Berkeley, according to Farber)--these precedents probably will...