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...Harvard Board of Trustees. (Radcliffe's trustee meetings are open to students, who may address them on any matter they choose.) Radcliffe's organizational style makes Harvard's look positively paranoid: Clearly, the presence within the University of such an accessible institution should only be abandoned with some forethought...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Hundred Years of Solitude | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...With forethought and on-scene thrift, Europe can still be affordable and memorable. The small hotels and offbeat restaurants can be as pleasant as any in the world. But don't forget the aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Europe '78: No Bargain Basement | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...extraordinarily meticulous writer, able to achieve an effortless, limpid tone without leaving any loose sentence ends, or losing the thread of his story, or using words that do not belong exactly where they are. His articles seem to convey information almost by accident and to flow along without any forethought, McPhee having just sat down and written out his impressions of something as he remembered them...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Reassuring World | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

Lewis J. Tolleson Jr., manager of the Freshman dining hall, said that there is indication of organization and forethought in the theft of the television set. He said that an iron post normally located on the first floor was found near the door of the lounge on the second floor of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union, Faculty Club Robbed; Crime Increases During Break | 4/11/1973 | See Source »

Whatever their motives, the four held a conference sometime that summer and decided on a trial swap, agreeing, with remarkable forethought, that if the trade were not agreeable to everyone, all would go back to their original partners. In the course of this parley, no detail was overlooked. Each couple had two children, so it was decided that the older child of each marriage would live with his father, the younger one with his mother. There was even an agreement to exchange family dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Switch Pitchers | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

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