Word: forethought
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...would refuel in Aden--suggest that the attack was plotted weeks, even months, in advance. Once it pulled into Aden, the ship was highly vulnerable--to the bevy of small craft mingling around it, to the port authorities who had dispatched the moorers, to anyone with the cleverness and forethought to plan carefully for such a moment. If the commanders noticed anything suspicious as the Cole was moored, it was already too late. Said Admiral Vernon Clark, the Navy's chief of operations: "It would be extraordinarily difficult...to do anything about this kind of situation and to have stopped...
That's right, Quadlings. The new shuttle schedule advocated by these groups shows little forethought concerning our daily migration patterns. Unlike in the previous schedule, where the frequency of shuttles varied with passenger volume, one shuttle is now supposed to leave the Quad every 10 minutes between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., rain or shine, 10 a.m. class pending or middle-of-the-hour lull...
...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...