Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, the target has been grades. A large group of first-year students realized in the middle of the winter that in June they would face examinations which would virtually determine their legal careers, and they found the prospect simply unacceptable. They prepared a report which urged several educational reforms, and eventually 80 percent of the first-year class signed a petition demanding pass-fail grading this year...
Shuddering at the prospect of deadlocked elections being settled by Congress, Thomas Jefferson called the Electoral College system "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." No fewer than 500 attempts have been made to reform the procedure, but none has ever got past Congress. Now it appears that electoral reform is an idea whose time has come...
...long as the U.S. commitment to Asian security remains strong, any withdrawal from Okinawa seems a dubious prospect. Those ugly black B-52s will probably keep on rolling off Okinawan runways toward targets in Viet Nam, or rest poised to defend Taiwan, South Korea and Japan should the need arise...
...this year's first quarter. Even so, a FORTUNE survey shows that businessmen are still in an expansionist mood; 77% of those polled expect further increase in sales over the next twelve months. If the leading indicators prove correct, some abrupt changes of mind and manner are in prospect...
Some of the 14 students who did not request financial assistance when they applied to Harvard may still have financial need. "They may not have applied for it because they had the prospect of the Navy scholarship," Peterson said...