Word: foresight
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...history of television weathercasting does not exactly en courage reverence. In the beginning, stations just had a staff announcer rip the forecast off the A. P. ticker. Stations with commercial foresight, however, brought in scientists or pseudo scientists to discourse on occluded fronts and thermal inversions. The weather package was born: a short noncontroversial segment of the local news, with almost universal audience interest. In the mid-and late '50s came the era of the weather girl-sex to relieve the tedium of the millibars. The acts ranged from chirpy to sultry. The women, often blond, busty and breathy...
...University, the HIID, and above all Arnold Harberger are now paying for Bok's lack of foresight. The effort to stop the appointment, to undo the mistake of the moment, is taking up faculty time, HIID staff time and Bok's time. And Harberger is paying a high personal price for Bok's mistake in the pain of being publicly denounced by his Harvard colleagues and by Harvard students as an immoral and narrow-minded...
Carter's emphasis on work in basic research--research designed to expand knowledge without concern for the immediate usefulness of the new information, shows foresight. Today's scientists work on projects that might last ten years. They collaborate with other workers to share the use and cost of the sophisticated and expensive equipment essential for advanced studies. To deter the obsolescence of such equipment, Carter innovately calls for "centralized equipment" available on a regional basis to several groups of workers, and offers special funds for this purpose...
...ways. When he married a Korean beauty named Hyun Ju Chang, four receptions were staged in their honor. All yielded handsome returns; indeed, at the one held in a Washington, D.C., restaurant, envelopes of cash from lobbyists and well-wishers were collected at the door. For those without the foresight to bring money, Wilson staffers accepted credit card payments, which were exchanged for cash by the restaurant...