Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shattered Afghanistan, the outlook ahead is far grimmer: more war, more bloodshed, more despair. With 1 million dead, 2 million uprooted from their homes and another 5 million claiming temporary asylum in neighboring countries, Afghanistan is bracing for a duel to the death between Najibullah's shaky regime and the U.S.-backed mujahedin rebels. No one knows whether the Soviets will mount cross-border air raids to thwart the rebels' designs, or if Washington intends to keep open its not-so-covert arms pipeline through Pakistan to the rebels. But even if the superpowers bow out entirely, both sides...
...disaster for the Law School at a time when we needed someone to help restore trust within the faculty," said Warren Professor of Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, a CLS adherent. "We have instead somebody who by temperament, ideology and educational outlook is most likely to polarize the faculty...
...senators and representatives attending Tuesday's Joint Committee hearing on the 1989 economic outlook hardly looked surprised when Federal Reserve head Alan Greenspan told them he thought President Bush's economic forecast was too optimistic...
...Wall Street one new breed of economists looks at the same unexpected events and comes up with a rosier outlook on how the world works. In this view, the U.S. has entered an era of prosperity called the New Wave. "We are in one of the most revolutionary periods in our history," says Sam Nakagama, chairman of Nakagama & Wallace, an economic consulting firm in Manhattan. Nakagama and other New Wave advocates say the record expansion owes its strength and resilience to the openness of the U.S. economy during the past decade. With the global village linked by high-speed computers...
...against North will have better odds for conviction. North's threat to use graymail against the remaining charges could backfire, according to some lawyers. "Right now Oliver North is not viewed as a graymailer; he is viewed as a patriot," says former Watergate assistant prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste. That outlook could change, Ben-Veniste suggests, as the focus of the case shifts from the unauthorized conduct of foreign policy to the seedier allegations of shredding documents, lying to Congress and diverting money for North...