A shaman foresees events distant in time and space, discovers the place of a lost animal, forecasts prospects for fishing and hunting, and assists in increasing the gain.
In some respects, federal prosecutors never anticipated having to investigate Clemens because they did not foresee events that would occur when they originally asked McNamee to cooperate with George J. Mitchell, who was then leading an investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
Malou Innocent is a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute In a perfect world, candidates would come to a foreign policy debate with great knowledge, recognition of the complications and difficulties in making the world a better place, and a humility about their ability to foresee events in a rapidly-changing world.
The peril of even fine minds thinking too narrowly, Mr. Schwartz says, was illustrated by the giant hedge fund Long-Term Capital Manearlynt, whicollapsed collapsed in 1998 because its brilliant traders and Nobel prize-winning economists did not foresee events beyond their risk models.
But prediction markets haven't, for the most part, been used to try to predict things like the fall of the Soviet Union, and so it's not clear whether a market would really be able to foresee events that represent a dramatic break with the past, rather than an evolution from it.
Mulloy said she didn't foresee events unfolding as they did.
"Let's face it, none of us could have foreseen an event like Lehman, but we didn't feel the capitalization of Capco as it seemed to be forming was going to be adequate in the extremely unlikely event that something happened," Mr. Meave said.
The company "could not have foreseen the event giving rise to the April 2010 incident," he said, and there was no evidence that it violated any regulations.
Of course, he could not have foreseen the events in Japan.
However, I could not have foreseen the events that would follow.
