Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Bradford Hingham tested his new power, and here Harrington's bizzare satire is at its best. Hingham changes his personality to fit each prospect, and meets with no failure. Soon "It was a frenzy, a perfect orgy of setting in which, finally, he did not speak at all but had only to make a convulsive gesture and the people accepted the contracts he thrust at them...
Around the new political probability be gan a great regrouping and reappraisal. So much of international and national progress and reassurance had come to be symbolized by Eisenhower that there was real danger that the prospect of his retirement would pull the linchpin of trust. No man in either U.S. party approaches him in stature. His own party, last week so confident, was plunged in gloom by the prospect of fighting the 1956 campaign without...
This week Hall & Co. had to face the very definite prospect that the President, even if he makes a quick recovery, will not run. The possibility threw the Republican Party into deep dismay; the reality conceivably could cause an intraparty Donnybrook to rival any nomination struggle in G.O.P. history. If he was receding from the political picture, President Eisenhower probably could not pick the nominee, but he could have important influence on his party's choice...
...will business be next year? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week took a look ahead, found the prospect pleasing. The "alltime high" boom of 1955 would keep running ahead. Despite 1955's record output of more than 7,000,000 cars, the Chamber expected that '56 auto sales would be almost as high. Construction, consistently on the upgrade every year since World War II, would increase again...
LOWER TARIFFS are in prospect for a list of some 1,000 imported items (value $2 billion) in 1956. Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the U.S. will put up nearly one-fifth of its imports (everything from golf balls to autos) for trade bargaining with 25 nations in Geneva this January. Though not all duties will be cut, prospects are that many items will be cut 15% over the next three years...