Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...last Lusia and I were alone together.* She'd had the foresight to pack our transistor radio, and on the evening news my exile was the lead story, along with Afghanistan. For the next two weeks foreign broadcasts featured protests by writers, public personalities and -- of particular weight -- scientists, including the U.S. scientists Sidney Drell and Jeremy Stone. The intervention of U.S. National Academy of Sciences President Philip Handler and other prominent scientists might have forestalled further steps against me. My Soviet colleagues, regrettably, kept silent -- except for public attacks...
...subsequent torrent of change in the Eastern Bloc, experts have advanced scores of theories to explain the rise of freedom. Economists cite the inherent inefficiency of central planning, while the Right credits the Reagan military buildup with forcing Gorbachev to back down. The press, enamored of Gorbachev, credits his foresight and "vision" with Eastern Europe's new found freedom...
...proximate cause for these changes has been the courage and foresight of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Soviet leader realized that his country could not survive spending billions on military weapons and leaving little for the basic needs of its people. He also saw that freedom of expression and political participation were critical to the stability and happiness of a nation...
...example, the editorial praises the "courage and foresight of Mikhail Gorbachev" and says Gorbachev changed mostly because he realized that spending too much on the military reduced his country's ability to provide basic needs. While this may be true, it leaves aside the other reasons cited--freedom and democracy. Are the liberals putting aside the causes of freedom, human rights and democracy in favor of dollar signs...
...effective but smaller military by the end if not the middle of the decade. The Pentagon's typical gamesmanship -- pretending to tighten its belt a little each year without rethinking basic issues -- could lead to the worst outcome: a hodgepodge of cuts that will come anyway, guided not by foresight and leadership but by some of the worst instincts in politics...