Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This prospect is not so dismal as it sounds. If protected well, the remaining quarter-million elephants would be a large enough population to thrive and multiply again. In fact, David Western, director of WCI, asserts that if allowed to grow old and die naturally, the elephants in these herds could probably supply enough tusks to support an ivory market larger than today's illegal business...
...deliver peace, that we can deliver Israeli concessions. If there is going to be lasting peace, it will be the result of direct negotiations between the parties, not something mandated or delivered by anybody from the outside, including the U.S. We must do whatever we can to enhance the prospect of the parties negotiating the problem out among themselves. It is not the role of the U.S. to pressure Israel. At the same time, it is in Israel's interest to resolve the issue. Both sides have got to find a way to give something...
...will have to continue to support them through humanitarian assistance. It also seems to me that we should not just march in and disband the contras. We need to at least leave open the prospect they could be re-established as a fighting force if Ortega continues to thumb his nose at his neighbors...
Baker hesitates. It is well known that the U.S. is not exactly thrilled by the prospect of "E.C. '92," but a guest is present. Slowly, with his official voice in gear, the Secretary-designate rehearses the lines he will shortly repeat to the Senate during his confirmation hearings. "We've got to make sure Europe is open to all," he says. "If that means aggressively enforcing our own trade laws, so be it. I hope it doesn't come to that. It's going to take some skilled diplomacy to get the edge on that one. Tell you the truth...
...nation. Some newsmen were to be included to send out dispatches on presidential decisions, should any printing presses or broadcast facilities be left standing. We were ordered to stay within 20 minutes of the White House and near a phone. I brooded for a couple of days over the prospect of leaving a wife and three small children behind, and decided I could not do it. I asked to be taken off the pool. I felt the moment was so unreal that none of us knew for sure what we were doing...