Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master plan was released, a report leaked out that the MBTA was considering a tract of land in South Braintree. Local officials there protested, and it now appears that the South Braintree site has fallen out of favor with the MBTA, leaving the Penn Central yards as the prime prospect for the car barns...
This unlikely unanimity of view was produced by the prospect of imminent Big Four talks at the U.N. on peace in the Middle East. Washington, encouraged by a series of bilateral discussions, had proposed that U.S., British, Soviet and French negotiators begin high-level meetings this week on the possibility of an agreement, and Washington's initiative had been welcomed in the other capitals. Both Paris and London, however, insisted that there was no thought of actually imposing a solution. "I do not think such a solution would work," said British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart. "On the other hand...
...broads and brawls but might press on to new frontiers of blandness. Legitimate controversy or merely inconvenient opinion aired on television would also fall under the censor's watchful eye. "What is proposed," says Leonard Freeman, producer of CBS's Hawaii Five-O, "is Orwellian in its prospect. We are now overly cautious; the result is a vacuum years behind the audience...
...Capitol Hill, the debate was obviously going to continue for weeks. An Associated Press poll last week showed 44 Senators against ABM and 35 for it, with 21 undecided. Thus the ultimate resolution seems as uncertain as the prospect of any meeting of minds...
...raising the prospect that predominantly white oldtimers might willingly relinquish jobs to black newcomers, the U.A.W. is neither so naive nor so self less as it might sound. Thanks to sup plemental unemployment benefits and the guaranteed annual income that Walter Reuther's union has won in recent years, veteran workers would hardly suf fer at all. A man with a year or more on the job would still draw nearly 95% of his weekly wage for 31 weeks. A man on the job for seven or more years could get similar benefits for a full year. Under ordinary...