Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When California residents voted to brake the state's runaway car-insurance rates last November, alarmed insurers sped into court to overturn the referendum. But last week the California Supreme Court upheld most of the measure, thus increasing the prospect that a revolt against high auto premiums could soon spread to other states. In a unanimous decision, the seven justices affirmed the major provisions of Proposition 103, which slashes car premiums and other types of property and casualty rates 20% below the level of November 1987. Good drivers will get another...
...Arafat's peace initiative continues to be propelled by the intifadeh, the 17-month-old uprising that has left 20 Israelis and at least 361 Palestinians dead. But if another year goes by without any serious prospect of peace talks, Arafat may pronounce his initiative a failure. That could be the start of an even bloodier phase. According to Arafat confidants, P.L.O. activists may then be given the green light to start using bullets instead of stones against the Israeli occupation forces...
...Falklands. Grenada was conquered before most Americans even knew Grenada existed. But it was more than a month from the time the British task force sailed to retake the Falklands from Argentina to the time the war was won. Whatever the rights and wrongs of either war, announcing the prospect of a battle is leadership; announcing a victory is not. Whether America will actually defend its freedom with blood and money when called upon is -- for all the martial rhetoric and credit-card defense spending of the 1980s -- unproved...
L.D.P. leaders are jittery about the prospect of losing their majority in the upper house after elections that must take place by mid-August. Retaining control of the lower house in elections to be held no later than the summer of 1990 is even more important, since that body appoints the Prime Minister. "By that time, we will have political reform," said an L.D.P. leader. "The public sentiment will not be as vehement as it is now." As usual, the L.D.P. seems more interested in keeping itself in power than cleaning up Japan's corruption-prone politics...
...Supreme Court this week hears a case that could weaken or reverse its controversial Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. That prospect has jolted pro-choice forces into action. Meanwhile, Operation Rescue has become the spearhead of the militant pro-life movement. Garry Wills describes the new antiabortion shock troops and their leader, Randall Terry...