Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speculation on a final settlement or a permanent peace under such conditions has an air of unreality about it. Even if the immediate military crisis subsides, the prospect for real peace between Israel and the Arab states will also ebb a little farther, as it has done after each successive outbreak of border violence. At best, a long period of continued friction and undiminished enmity between Israel and her neighbors lies ahead. But however illusory are the hopes for an end to Israel-Arab discord, the United States and the other great powers have an inescapable obligation to prevent...
Because of the prospect for more big pig crops, it looked as if Secretary Benson might be pressured by Congressmen into buying up pork. The program would be applied mainly at the processing level-a limited purchasing agreement aimed at cured shoulders, hams and bacon which the Agriculture Department could quickly dispose of through school lunch programs, hospitals and other charitable organizations...
...REFUNDS are in prospect for dozens of companies which got partial fast tax write-offs on plants built during World War II. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling that Ohio Power Co. should get a $6 million refund because it was allowed only a 35% write-off on an $11 million plant. Under the law, it should have been allowed 100%. The ruling opened the way for refunds to 39 companies with claims of $62 million...
...prospect that extended 100 miles before him was deeply satisfactory to the man on the terrace, for within it he had ridden trails, painted the colorings, read the local history, gone fishing, driven back in his father-in-law's Packard from Eldorado Springs on the first trip he had taken after his wedding. Contemplating it, he seemed unusually relaxed and contented, for here was the segment of land that he had always most liked to come back to. Suddenly from below, from the croquet garden of the hospital, came shouts denoting that here was another day, spent...
...Chinas have been in existence for several years and there is little prospect of their merging in the near future. So long as this situation prevails, we shall have to reject the idea of one China, because we cannot turn over the eight million people on Formosa to Communist rule. Nor should our recognition of Peking, if this should occur, affect our close ties with the Republic of China government...