Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington. Democrat Albert ("The Rose") Rosellini, 47, faced the thornless prospect of an amenable legislature-Democratic for the first time in twelve years. Shrewd and ambitious, he planted a program (atomic power development, broadened welfare benefits, etc.) that might take new money, but was bound to make new friends for Al the Rose...
...plunge through an incredible thicket of quotas, subsidies, double pricing and doctored transport rates in every country. German industrialists, cockily confident of their ability to outcompete anyone in Europe, were enthusiastic at the opportunity to win an even bigger share of Western European markets, but unenthusiastic at the prospect of being obliged to give French-style benefits-including three-week vacations-to their hitherto unpampered employees. The labor benefits, in turn, have great appeal to German unions, thereby vitiating German Socialism's traditional opposition to European integration schemes...
...Impending Defeat. Beyond civil rights and its reefs, there waits the prospect of a second losing battle for the South. Stung by "Judge" Nixon's interpretation. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Knowland last week co-sponsored a bill to 1) amend the provision of Rule XXII that requires a vote of two-thirds of all Senators (64 votes) to close debate, so that cloture can be applied by two-thirds of the Senators present; 2) abolish the provision of XXII that guarantees the right of unlimited debate (i.e., nonstop filibuster privileges) on proposals to change...
...Budapest workers, quiescent for the past few weeks, staged a series of wildcat strikes. It was their only way to protest the prospect of reduced wages in plants where production fell below the "norm." As the strike developed, Soviet tanks and armored cars (guns uncovered for the first time in weeks) blocked off Budapest's factory area. When 5,000 Csepel Island iron and steel workers demonstrated in the streets, trigger-nervous Hungarian militiamen began shooting in the air, bounced a few volleys into the crowd. Casualties: two dead, at least four wounded. Two days later the Kadar government...
...week spread the mortar for the cornerstone of the State Department's new $57.4 million, eight-story-tall, two-block-square headquarters in Washington. For the 8,000-odd staffers now crammed into State's Foggy Bottom headquarters or farmed out among 28 other office buildings, the prospect of at last being in one building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings only to the Pentagon across the Potomac), the State Department settled for another massive, untrimmed behemoth with about as much esthetic...