Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Weather Service says that many areas of the country may get some precipitation soon, but that the Rocky Mountain high is still expected to keep weather warm in the West and frigid in the East. The service prognosticates in meteorologese: "The 30-day outlook is for temperatures to average below seasonal normals over the Eastern third of the nation . . . Above-normal averages are indicated for areas west of the continental divide...
...censors, if any, tend to see that censorship itself runs counter to certain basic American values. But why have so many people with such an outlook begun lurching forth so aggressively in recent years? They quite likely have always suffered the censorial impulse. But they have been recently emboldened by the same resurgent moralistic mood that has enspirited evangelical fundamentalists and given form to the increasingly outspoken constituency of the Moral Majority. At another level, they probably hunger for some power over something, just as everybody supposedly does these days. Thus they are moved, as American Library Association President Peggy...
...Reagan's strong-willed secretary of state designate, is unlikely to settle for second place in any high-level policy struggles, some observers have come to view tension between State and NSC as a virtual inevitability, and the lineups taking shape indicate that at least some difference in outlook will persist...
...decision would not please farmers, who continue to protest the boycott on the grounds that such tactics hurt long-run sales because they drive customers like the Soviet Union to other, more reliable suppliers. But few farmers can still contend that the embargo seriously hurts their profits. Indeed, the outlook for the American farmer has seldom seemed brighter. Prices have been rising fast, and the market for U.S. grain continues to expand. Says Agriculture Department Analyst Paul J. Meyers: "The long-term trend is for growth in the export trade and for relatively higher prices." Meyers predicts that...
...terrible weather for the spring and summer. This time, though, they have real reason for worry. Last summer's drought left the subsoil in the lower wheat-growing states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas seriously dehydrated. Another dry summer would cut yields in these areas significantly, and the outlook for rain is not good. Says Iowa's agricultural climatologist Paul Waite: "When a dry spell goes over a year, it is likely to run on to two years...