Word: prospect
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...prospect of whole republics defecting has complicated U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms-control talks. Soviet negotiators have dug in their heels at the last minute in part because the Ministry of Defense is looking to the day when it may have to compensate for lost real estate with extra missiles. "As our overall situation deteriorates," says one official, "we have to reinforce ourselves where we have a vanguard position." Then he adds with a thin smile, "That means the ballet and the Strategic Rocket Forces...
...prospect of reregulation is sure to be Topic A as industry executives gather in Atlanta this week for their annual convention. Though the severity of Washington's legislation is still an open question, the tide may be turning for one of the hot businesses of the late 1980s. Cable companies are already suffering from investor wariness. The largest U.S. cable operator, Denver- based Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), which draws 78% of its revenues from cable, has seen its stock price fall 29% since early October, to 14 3/4. Time Warner, which derives 25% of its revenues from cable programming...
...BIRD. IT'S A PLANE. IT'S MIGHTY MAXWELL. From all the huffing and puffing it took to knock down the door, you'd think the British publishing magnate was on a rescue mission. But Robert Maxwell was only trying to save his ego from the prospect of settling in less than spacious surroundings when he arrived early one recent morning at the London headquarters of his new weekly newspaper, the European. Staffers say he was dismayed not to find a king-size office for himself, and used a crowbar to break into the better proportioned lair of the managing...
Unlike Solzhenitsyn, I see faults and sound principles in both the socialist / and the Western systems. I believe that their convergence is possible, and I welcome that prospect as a chance to save humanity from the confrontation that threatens it with destruction...
...obvious question about the deal was whether it had any connection with the release of two American hostages in Lebanon last month or the prospect of future releases. Washington and Tehran both said no, and it seems the U.S. will receive far more in payments -- $105 million, vs. only about $400,000 for Tehran. Some $3.5 billion in Iranian assets remain frozen...