Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year for full professors, and wages of $5,000 and $3,500 for associates and assistants respectively, and a 50 percent increase above the 1940 scale for all three groups, a rise which be suggests be boosted to 75 percent within the next three years. "There is no prospect at the moment," he states, "that the cost of living in the immediate future will settle below 40 percent above...
...Malaya, the long-range prospect is even more discouraging. A self-governing Malaya assumes that the people who live there think of Malaya as a nation to which they owe allegiance. At present the Malays (41% of the population) obey their scattered sultans; the Indians (13%) give allegiance to their religious communities, and the Chinese (43%) look to China...
...sold them all at the present price of T.W.A. stock, an unlikely prospect, he could raise around $40,000,000. One T.W.A. stockholder estimated T.W.A. would need as much as $100,000,000. And with T.W.A. stock down to $21 a share from its high of $71 in January, the market for new issues looked none too good...
WASHINGTON, December 1--The legal battle of the United States vs. John L. Lewis may drag out for most of this week, attorneys indicated today, raising the prospect of large scale industry shutdowns and 1,000,000 unemployed...
...UNESCO's practical work of spreading ideas of peace and cooperation, it would certainly come up repeatedly against this ideological analogy to the Security Council veto. That prospect did not necessarily make UNESCO's task impossible; conflicting ideologies had been put together before. But it was worth noting (lest the world delude itself as to the difficulties facing UNESCO) that such sentiments as Ribnikar's were not those with which Alexander and Porus met in friendship on the fertile Punjab plain...