Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting the Najibullah government. Washington urged the mujahedin to forgo further infighting in favor of the "vital work of improving unity and coordination" at a time when the Kabul regime is increasingly assertive on the military and political fronts -- and the guerrillas' drive has faltered. Whatever the fallout, the prospect for future unity is bleak. U.S. analysts fear that once Najibullah is ousted, mujahedin factions will turn on one another in the effort to achieve power...
...well as at the economic summit in Paris last week, the plan calls for "reducing" -- in fact, forgiving -- some principal and interest, thus freeing borrowers' resources for growth. The banks end up holding IOUs that have a lower face value but a higher chance of being repaid. The increased prospect of the debtor nations' economic and political stability becomes reassuring collateral...
...must be added, a day at the beach. Those who feel guilty, summer after summer, about not reading War and Peace can positively grovel at the prospect of the unquestionably difficult and demanding August 1914. It offers an encompassing narrative, told from dozens of different perspectives, of Russian life circa 1914 and of the nation's stark unpreparedness for the military offensive launched against Germany in August of that year. With this ! story Solzhenitsyn mixes snippets from contemporary newspapers, a succession of official documents and a series of "Screens," scenes described as if they were intended for a film script...
...parents went out that weekend in 1969 and bought a television set so they could watch it. Like the rest of the nation, they were enthralled and enraptured by the prospect of a human being setting foot on the surface of another world...
...life forces, energized by the prospect of outlawing abortions, and pro- choice activists, galvanized by the fear of losing their rights, vow to turn every election in every state into a referendum on the issue. -- A new TIME poll finds that a majority of Americans want abortions to remain legal and disagree with the court's decision. -- Five states where the battle is hottest...