Word: foresight
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...letting well enough alone merely requires foresight, but the art of letting bad enough alone demands clairvoyance. That makes it a rare art indeed, and therefore William Agee may be forgiven for not having mastered it. At least he had not mastered it by the afternoon of Sept. 24. In a fit of candor, he faced 600 employees of the Bendix Corp., of which he is chairman, and tried to put to rest once and for all the rumors that his admittedly "close friendship" with attractive, blond Mary Cunningham, 29, had anything to do with her rise from executive assistant...
...what is byzanium? It's super-uranium, only found on one island off the coast of Russia. It will power the Sicilian project, a laser curtain to shield capitalism and democracy from the trigger-happy Bolsheviks. With typical American foresight, a miner dug all of it up in 1912, before the radio, much less the laser, was more than a glimmer in the mind of some scientist. The miner, with somewhat less foresight, set sail a few weeks later on, you guessed it, see the pieces beginning to fall into place, the Titanic. Pretty good plot...
...remarkable Americans who drew up the Constitution believed in man's inherent evil and selfishness, but possessed the foresight to realize that man would operate best through a system of democratic rule...
Curing that problem would almost certainly mean making drastic changes in the very structure of Soviet society, as well as in its ideological foundations. To do so would require a degree of foresight and boldness that, up until now, the system has suppressed, and it would risk unleashing sudden, unpredictable change and upheaval in a country where both are anathema...
...chief executive officer of Amax Inc., a molybdenum mining and metals company, he transformed the sleepy firm into a giant natural resources company. In addition to coal, it has large holdings in oil and gas, copper, nickel and iron ore. Although MacGregor is credited with the foresight of having acquired metals and energy sources before their scarcity became apparent, he is criticized for a heavyhanded management style and for failing to keep a close eye on the company's finances. Says an analyst: "His attitude was, 'I don't care what the balance sheet looks like...