Word: prospect
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Among the other women who walk the corridors of power in Eastern Europe, Malgorzata Niezabitowska, the official spokeswoman of the Polish government, was attracted by the prospect of fundamental change. A free-lance writer in Warsaw, she was electrified in 1980 by the rise of Solidarity. "Freedom was suddenly possible, and you had to help fight for it," she recalls. Like many previously quiescent East European women, she flung herself into active opposition to the Communist regime. The political education she received as the trade union rose and fell, and the relationship she developed with Tadeusz Mazowiecki, later to become...
Ward 7, Precinct 1--Rockefeller Hall. Vote at North Prospect Church, Roseland...
Ward 7, Precinct 2--Ames Hall, Child Hall, Dane Hall, Dudley Co-ops, Holmes Hall, Perkins Hall, Richards Hall, Shaw Hall, Story Hall and Wyeth Hall. Vote at North Prospect Church, Roseland...
...have finally emerged from the Dark Ages of food labeling into the Renaissance that the public deserves," said Dr. Francois Abboud, president of the American Heart Association, at the prospect of the labeling changes. The reform, he said, would be useful to "millions of Americans who want to reduce their risk of heart and blood-vessel diseases." Earlier this year the A.H.A., bowing to criticism and threatened federal action, scrapped its own HeartGuide seal-of-approval program just two months after it started. "Right now, any product can say it's high-fiber this and bran that," agreed Nancy Hailpern...
...slender fixed incomes. The better-off find themselves pressed too. "Without the kids to take care of, I wouldn't be working as much," says Florence Gilmore, 57, of Long Beach, Calif., who works as a private-duty nurse to support three young grandsons. Nonetheless, Gilmore faced the prospect of bankruptcy before a state agency provided $694 in monthly assistance...