Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is going to happen in four or five years' time. We've just won this election. We'll implement the policies that we've put forward in this election. And let's just see exactly where...
...yours was the first to be born knowing it. With each second you have after this one, you have to find a way to guarantee that time itself can live. We must choose to be custodians of this lovely planet that suckled us and led us peaceably forward with all the rest of nature for millions of years and could go on for its allotted billions more if we tell our time what to do. Otherwise, time and the earth could go out like a candle...
...stockholders a $60 cash payment for every share they owned. Company officials apparently believed the huge new debt would make Allegis a less attractive takeover target and that the cash payout would placate Coniston and other restive shareholders. They were wrong. The pilots still talked takeover, and Coniston pressed forward with its proposal to break up the company, maintaining that Allegis stock, then hovering in the 80s, remained undervalued...
...final days, the campaign also grew ugly. Kinnock called Thatcher a "would-be empress" surrounded by "spineless sycophants and doormats." Thatcher responded, "They are accusing us of having the guts and spine to put our policies forward." Both candidates traded charges about who would run the country's economy, schools, housing and National Health Service better. Thatcher, for example, defended private health coverage as "absolutely vital," so that she could go to the hospital "at the time I want and with the doctor I want." Michael Meacher, Labor's chief health spokesman, called that a "callous, inhumane and selfish" stance...
...foreign policy experts also say that the tremendous financial undertaking would never materialize in the present era. "In the immediate post-war period we were able to come forward with a major effort and spend 3 percent of our Gross National Product for the Marshall Plan. Today we can't get one half of one percent for such purposes," says Rusk...