Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government disclaimed any intent to go back on Harding's stern regulations, but one highly placed Londoner who knows Sir Hugh says: "He would never have accepted this thankless job without a broad agreement with the government, without a prospect of resolving the conflict." In New York, where he was busy lobbying for next month's U.N. Cyprus debate, Archbishop Makarios shrugged: "A solution is just a matter of time. Cyprus will be free." But Turkey's President Celal Bayar still growled that Turkey will never let an island 40 miles off its coast fall into Greek...
...said that he saw "no prospect for German reunification," one obstacle to neutralizing Central Europe. He continued that advances in long-range planes and in missile warfare made Russia "more disposed to increase relaxations in Central Europe...
...State Department's immediate reaction to Marshal Tito's recognition of the East German government has been a familiarly negative one. The prospect of cutting off aid to Yugoslavia is unfortunately on its way toward becoming a reality...
Tito has already suffered a good deal of humiliation from the outcry which Americans raised at the prospect of his visiting the U.S. It would be a great mistake to alienate him further by terminating an aid which he considers necessary and which we must hope is well spent...
Some see the way out of this wilderness in unsponsored subscription TV. But General David Sarnoff, president of RCA, says that the prospect of viewers in three million homes placing dollars in coin boxes to see a program would be so attractive that all good programs would go under this system, and substantial free entertainment would end. It is too easy to blame Madison Avenue for commercialism. The Avenue is merely the tool of the corporations which it serves. To decry commercialism is to decry the present American spirit...