Word: prospect
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...Winnipeg. Canada's turn to the right was indeed a spectacular surprise. The secondary significance dawned more slowly. In a breakdown inherent in the parliamentary system, the Canadian voter had balanced his choice so nicely that the country was assured of a minority government. Canada faced the prospect of a temporarily paralyzed domestic and foreign policy, and another election within a year...
While sweating out the budget-axing mood of Congress, plane and missile makers last week were shaken by the unhappy prospect of a still bigger cut by the usually friendly Pentagon. At hearings of a Senate appropriations subcommittee, the meaning of a directive issued by Defense Secretary Charles Wilson three weeks ago was spelled out for the first time. The directive, which outlawed military "installment buying" for all services, will hit the Air Force hardest. It threatens to slice existing and future Air Force contracts by $4.2 billion in fiscal...
...national defense. That fact was not lost on Senate Democrats, long proud of their defense record, who found themselves liking heavy economy less and less. Therefore, with Republican Leader William Knowland pledging to support defense restorations despite his own budget-cutting hopes, the Senate outlook was increasingly promising. Best prospect: the Senate may go along with the $1.3 billion in "bookkeeping" reductions, but restore the $1.2 billion in muscle cuts from the armed forces...
...Liberals, who took 170 of the Commons' 265 seats in 1953, were seemingly assured of holding a majority together. Any Tory surge that cut the Liberal seats to 132 (one less than a majority) would rank as a major upset. The likeliest prospect: the Tories, who won only 51 seats last time, will increase their holdings by between 20 to 40 seats...
...decided that they fitted Pavlov's pattern. After early failures, Wesley turned his back on appeals to the intellect, made a frank and crude assault on the emotions. He preached so eloquently and graphically of the horrors of hell-fire.and brimstone that the wayward among his hearers found the prospect an unbearable stress, says Dr. Sargant. He quotes Wesley as describing meeting after meeting at which the penitent burst into tears, cried aloud, sweated profusely, shook all over, and often fell into stuporous states. This final stage seemed to fit both Pavlovian theory and modern psychiatric observation-that a patient...