Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government spending has been cut by more than ten billion dollars. Nearly three hundred thousand positions have been eliminated from the Federal payroll. Taxes have been substantially reduced. A balanced budget is in prospect. Social security has been extended to ten million more Americans and unemployment insurance to four million more. Unprecedented advances in civil rights have been made. The longstanding problems of agriculture have been forthrightly attacked...
...prospect of our beating Columbia is not too hopeful," Marion said, "but we have shown a lot of drive this year and we might just upset them. Our open team is the strongest it has ever been, but our foil and sabre squads definitely need experience...
...Mendes-France, Faure, and their collective followers can reconcile themselves to such cooperation, there may be some hope left for French stability in the next five years. The prospect for such success is hardly encouraging; the French Assembly is not noted for its miracles. But the importance of a stable French government to Western Europe and the free world is worth at least the effort. If this week's election results awaken France's leaders to their responsibilities, her present crisis could yet become her greatest boon...
...factories in the field." They produce 26% of all farm products. At the bottom are approximately 1,000,000 small marginal farmers (80% of them in the South), who produce only 8%. No matter what the Government's farm policy may be, this group has little prospect of improvement. Much of their land is unsuited for modern machinery. Their hope lies in industry, not farming. There are also some 1,700,000 small farms that are more residences and hobbies than they are means of making a living; they contribute only a small percentage of total farm production...
...prospect of having to declare either for it or against it produced a severe case of stay-at-home-itis among the Deputies...