Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of calmly gauging how to pressure the Soviets, Kennedy and his men were confused and very willing to make several concessions to Khrushchev. Scared by the prospect that Khrushchev would escalate any conflict, the White House was afraid that any move against the Soviets would touch off a nuclear holocaust. Eventually, a dovish Kennedy pledged never to invade Cuba and implicitly agreed to Khrushchev's demand that American nuclear missiles in Turkey be removed in exchange for a withdrawal of Soviet nuclear weapons from Cuba. The transcripts show that the United States did not "win" the Cuban Missile Crisis...
...discipline is no longer a matter of rulers on knuckles, but rather the prospect of getting ahead in the world. "I told my mother I wanted to come here because I wanted to learn and be somebody," says Albert Calderon, 15, a sophomore at Cardinal Hayes. His mother, Mirtha Astacio, is a cleaning woman, and her brother helps her pay the tuition. Albert's aspiration: "I want to be what you call a boss...
...bottom of the polls. Last week Pollyanna began to look more like Cruella De Ville: Kemp unleashed an uncharacteristically hard-nosed campaign that managed to rattle both George Bush and Bob Dole. In so doing, he elbowed his way into the "Bob and George" show and enhanced the prospect that he, rather than Pat Robertson, would become the conservative alternative to the two front runners...
...this month's giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was digital audio tape, or DAT. It seemed that just about every electronics company was showing off DAT players and recorders, and half a dozen firms said they would be selling machines in the U.S. by the summer. That prospect alarms record-company executives, who are afraid that DAT will induce more people to record their friends' albums rather than buy them in stores...
...profit or go out of business. Those elements of capitalist-style risk taking are frighteningly foreign to managers accustomed to relying on Moscow's central planners for virtually all business decisions. If employees of successful enterprises can anticipate increased bonuses and shared profits, others face the hitherto unknown prospect of plant closures and severe job dislocations...