Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's 102 million people would not have dared to hope for such an outcome. When Zia announced elections last July, he almost certainly planned to ban political parties. Only when Zia died in the still unexplained crash of his C-130 transport on Aug. 17 did the prospect for party participation emerge...
...military has signaled its intention to honor the election results. Just eight days after Zia's death, army Chief of Staff Mirza Aslam Baig instructed his officers, "Stick to your assigned job, leave politics to the politicians." However nervous at the prospect of another Bhutto government they may be, the generals have made no move to intervene...
...muttered one of the journalists watching. "Like dirty laundry out the back door." Jackie carried what dignity was left. Face stained, clothes marked with dried blood, eyes straight ahead, hand on the bronze casket as it was wheeled down the ramp. Several aides walked beside Jackie. The whole bright prospect of their new world shaped by their friend and leader had been vaporized in an instant by Oswald...
...large as to stifle economic growth, but it might encourage the world financial markets to lower our interest rates. Between the added tax revenue and lower interest on the national debt, the deficit would be cut more than a third. More to the point, there would be the reasonable prospect that the national debt would grow only about half as fast as GNP. So, gradually, over the next decade we'd find ourselves on ever firmer ground...
From grunts to generals, the contras face the prospect of disintegrating as a fighting force. True, up to 2,000 remain inside Nicaragua, trying to press their campaign. But the vast majority of the contras, about 12,000 fighters, are idle in base camps in Yamales, Honduras, waiting to see whether the next U.S. Administration will attempt to renew the military aid that dried up almost nine months...