Proactive

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  proactive
       adj 1: descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an
              effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur
              subsequently; "proactive inhibition"; "proactive
              interference" [ant: {retroactive}]
       2: (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by


          causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond
          to it after it happens