Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting did not fail. As the price of French participation in the Common Market the other prospective members agreed to invest $381,250.000 in France's overseas territories during the next five years. This concession-a painful one for West Germany, which will supply more than half of the money-removed the last serious obstacle to completion of the Common Market Treaty, raised the prospect that it will come up for parliamentary ratification some time this spring...
...occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist: Don't let our weather scare you; those other four men were all sick when they took the job. Princeton's Dodds, however, recalled the short careers of those predecessors of his, claimed that three of the four deceased were Yalemen, presumably...
...castle and a speed boat have been waiting for me in Lake Como, Italy. I could spend the last years of my life eating thousand-dollar bills, but I chose the harder road." Does that road lead back to Argentina and a joyous welcome home? Maudlin at the prospect of this vision, Juan Peroón disclosed the degree of his power sickness: "Peroónism without Peroón! It is easy to say it! It is hard to achieve it! Venezuelans stop me on the street and embrace me with tears. Imagine how it would...
...procurement funds on missiles in 1954, the U.S. will boost the outlay to 35% ($1.7 billion) for unmanned warbirds, and probably achieve a 50-50 split by 1960. For planemakers who have concentrated heavily on standard air frames, it will mean a rapid rejuggling of their production, the prospect of some thin years...
...trading, and are rarely models of literary clarity. They are so carefully hedged with ifs, ands and buts that the writer can always look back to prove omniscience, no matter which way the market turns. One recent sample: "If stocks hold at their present levels, the prospect of a continuation of the current trading range for the next few months appears likely. On the other hand, if the range is penetrated shortly on the downside, a deterioration of investor confidence could result in lower prices...