Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amid proliferating acronyms--and especially since the announcement of the new super-program last December -- CBCC has simply ceased to be the loud, clear voice of the community. The prospect of ever-increasing sums of money has prompted local skirmishes, as power enclaves are guarded and political fortunes pondered...
...attitudes and actions at home and abroad," he said, "too often give the lie to our sincerity. It is vital that we make our practices match our principles." Otherwise, he warned, the U.S. faces not only a "succession" of long, hot summers at home but the "equally forbidding prospect of a long, hot century" throughout the world. Romney clearly would like to be the man to bring principles and practices together, and recognizing that his major deficiency is in his unfamiliarity with foreign affairs, is now planning a 19-day look-and-learn trip through South America later this spring...
...Chief of State and commander in chief in 1963, might return from exile in Bangkok to enter the lists. The good-natured general headed the coup that overthrew Diem, but he would have to come home with the sufferance of the ruling generals, which is an unlikely prospect at the moment...
...pitch right over the plate. It meant wildcat walkouts by Teamsters and a retaliatory lockout by employers that held up two-thirds of the nation's truck-borne freight. It meant Huntley without Brinkley, at least until the 13-day TV-radio strike was settled. It meant the prospect of a newspaperless New York City for the fourth time in four years and of work stoppages by 12,300 Western Electric workers and 75,000 rubberworkers. Above all, it meant the threat of a nationwide rail strike...
...majority of the Council are stern, stolid, calculating Democrats. The governor and councillors are will aware that the Commonwealth's system of shared responsibility is little known or understood and that in the eyes of the nation any executions would be the fault of vice-presidential candidate Volpe. The prospect of the Democratic councillor's letting a man die in hopes of thwarting Governor Volpe's ambitions in grizzly, even unlikely, but to Massachusetts' politicians not unthinkable. Thus, some of Governor Volpe's advisors have come up with a proposal to remove the problem. Essentially, they have asked Volpe...