Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate debate on the natural gas bill passed last year by the House. In passionate support of the bill were Democratic Senators from such gas-producing states as Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas. In furious opposition were Democratic Senators from such gas-consuming states as Illinois, Minnesota. The prospect of a Democratic bloodletting was eminently pleasing to Republicans, who figured they had only to sit back and enjoy the spectacle. They reckoned, however, without the healing hand of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson...
...household or a business, the essence of good budget-making is to reduce all assorted debts and dreams to the common denominator of dollars so that the budgetmakers can see how to get the most out of the money on hand or in prospect. Modern government is a collection of fragmented divisions and departments, each sure of its own manifest destiny and naturally inclined to expand without worrying whether total income balances total outgo. It is Rowland Hughes's job to provide the kind of lid for uninhibited government that limited funds impose on a housewife or a businessman...
Faced with that prospect, U.S. officials dealing with Latin American affairs may try to sell the Cabinet and Congress on some kind of price-support program. If so, they will have to be supersalesmen. Congress is well aware that among U.S. consumers the memory of the 1953-54 coffee-price gouge still rankles...
...freshman team. Center Griff McClellan at 6-8 is the tallest of Munro's "big men". He has a long way to go before he can learn how to use his height skillfully. When he becomes more aggressive on rebounding and develops his shooting, he will be a good prospect for the varsity...
...junks with patched sails pick their way among British and U.S. warships, freighters and tankers of a score or more of flags. From the Peak, the British name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps the world's most crowded slums, where as many as 40 may live in a space...