Word: forethought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times it seems that the faculty is engaged in a giant game of chicken--and some kids have learned to take advantage of it. For many, the extent of their forethought is making plans for the weekend, and even those are subject to change at the last minute. They get jobs, not necessarily to save for college but to buy a $400 leather jacket. So many kids skip their homework that most teachers stop assigning more than 15 minutes' worth: ask too much, push too hard, and the students will give up, drop out, become a menace to society...
...just about to rethink my original reaction when about this time there was a groundswell of opinion among a group of seniors (and underclass students filled with impressive forethought) who raised these very questions about the senior gift. As a result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both...
Nevertheless, the rows seemingly go on forever, so it takes only a little forethought to be on Cloud Nine during Frank Lloyd Wright...
...must admit that I expect a little more forethought and cunning from my fellow countrymen--especially when attacking the most powerful man in the free world...
...request to make some joint artistic statement through movement? Did they communicate in some fashion to choose a routine and coordinate their movements? In order to spit, for instance, they both must take water into their mouths before they leap into the air -- a trick that takes some forethought. Other requests for tandem creatives have yielded a variety of results, including a synchronized backward swim culminating in a simultaneous wave of the tails. Or could it be that these routines are nothing more than one dolphin very closely following the lead of another? In the wild, after all, dolphins...