Q. Do you have any prices in mind yet? A. I don't foresee anybody buying in this building sitting there with a calculator and making the math on how much the apartment is per square foot.
The only other problem we can foresee is that buying the ice cream online requires advance planning, and so many of our Ben & Jerry's purchases feel spontaneous.
Portfolio managers who foresee a rebound concentrate their buying on segments of the economy that tend to outperform as a new growth cycle gathers momentum.
Aldous Huxley thought we'd have to invent increasingly equipment-intensive games to use up all our excess production; George Orwell envisioned a world permanently at war to destroy these dangerous goods; John Kenneth Galbraith foresaw corporations tricking consumers into buying all their useless geegaws through slick advertising.
"I don't foresee any buying binge at this stage," said T. Richard Holt of Prudential-Bache Securities.
A multigenerational home place has pleasures that I hadn't foreseen when we bought the house.
On Wednesday, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, testified that the Fed could foresee the day it would stop buying up U.S. bonds to goose the economy.
— The Geisinger Health Plan, run by one of the nation's top-rated health care organizations, foresees medical costs increasing next year by 7.5percentt for people buying insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Things began to change in the early 1990s, when Bill Gates, foreseeing the importance of digital images, set up Corbis and began buying up agency archives and libraries, even the digital rights to the paintings in the National Gallery.
WHEN Australia's big banks spent A$10 billion ($6 billion) buying the country's largest fund managers early this decade, no one foresaw that their plans would be stymied by a bunch of novice businessmen.
While those budget-conscious shoppers are clearly interested in buying, they may not be the type of long-term customers that retailers want to cultivate, said Mr. Freed of ForeSee.
