Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admittedly, the Democratic party is not all liberal and not all responsible. Indeed, the prospect of having Senator Eastland continue as chairman of a powerful committee is not pleasing. Nor is Democratic farm policy altogether constructive. But the indisputable fact remains that more committees are led more responsibly by Democrats than by Republicans. Whether Stevenson or Eisenhower is the next President, a bold foreign policy and a creative domestic policy can only emerge from a Democratic Congress...
...Macmillan emphasized, "has not yet arrived at a conclusion on this vital matter." There were strong reasons for the government's hesitation. British entry into a European free-trade area would involve painful adjustments. While some factories would prosper and expand, others would go out of business-a prospect to send cold chills down the spine of many a British industrialist. Some labor leaders were sure to make a fist at the very suggestion of even temporary disruptions of employment...
Some business leaders still viewed that prospect with the kind of alarm that caused the market to dip after the Republicans lost the Maine state elections. "Venture capital," said one, "would crawl into its shell and creep away." Others shrugged their shoulders. "You might do better with Ike," said Connecticut's Richard G. Williams, major stockholder of the J. B. Williams Co., "but you won't go broke with Stevenson...
...undetermined portion of the Harvard undergraduate body, the prospect of getting up early to prepare breakfast for 20 people is so unattractive that it is instinctively relegated to the realm of things that go bump in the night. Yet the recent report of the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard College points toward cooperative life as a foreseeable replacement for the relatively idyllic existence in the Houses...
...complicated by the probable reaction of the whites to Negro teachers in integrated schools. They will not like it. Having Negro children in the classroom is quite different from having a Negro teacher, who will have considerably more influence on the white students than their fellow Negro classmates. This prospect may increase southern resistance to integration to an unmanageable point...