Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outlook wasn 't brilliant for the Expos team that...
...fall somewhere in the middle. Much of the Right, Weinberger included, perceives deterrence as a long-term moral good. Much of the Left, notably the Catholic bishops, perceive it as a short-term necessary evil to be disregarded as swiftly as possible. The study group sympathizes with the bishops' outlook but is willing to stick with deterrence far longer. Hence, its support of weapons systems--like the cruise missile--that the bishops oppose...
...cannot--and should not--exist in a vacuum. It is by "the people" and should be for the people, although that might be wishful thinking in this age of corporate control. "Serious" art--for our purposes, classical music--emphasizes the artist, his ego, and a purely subjective and personal outlook. Success usually comes only after the classical composer dies and sometimes not at all. And, as Rockwell argues, the best classical music often comes from the outsider, the artist who is not affected by the corrosive influences of monetary success, trendiness, or peer pressure...
However sensible, those are ideas that would take a long time to implement. The near-term outlook thus remains for an odd combination of intermittent, savage but low-intensity fighting in Nicaragua and a continuing, much louder political uproar in both Central America...
...four had been paying the official $34 OPEC price for the Saudi crude, even though cheaper supplies were available elsewhere. Now the March price cut has freed them of that burden. So far, however, analysts have seen few immediate signs of improvement in the overall industry outlook. Says William Randol of First Boston, an investment banking firm: "This year's first-quarter earnings will be a disaster...