Word: hopefull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For years, of course, Paramount has been getting just the opposite news about Star Trek's box-office potential. The show was dreamed up by Roddenberry in 1966, because he thought that science fiction might provide a persuasive way of telling a hopeful, and presumably profitable, vision of history...
Economics commentators have long been more preoccupied with forecasting the quirks of the economic apparatus than with reporting how it actually works. In fact, they probably do the former poorly because they do the latter so little. To be sure, economic prophecy even at its most serious level is not...
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Rev. Augustus Roman, another member of the council, said last week he is hopeful its "efforts will aid in the dissolution of apartheid."
Not for everyman's coffee table is The Herons of the World by James Hancock and Hugh Elliott (Harper & Row; 304 pages; $65). The authors have limited their choice of long-legged wading birds to a single family, the Ardeidae, which comprises some 61 species. The Snowy Egret graces...