Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perennial hope of baseball, which, counting McCovey and Stargell, is completely out of wondrous Willies now and is missing Henry Aaron and Roberto Clemente too. And Frank Robinson and Lou Brock. The widespread news that they have all come back as Eric Davis of the Cincinnati Reds is a prospect more wishful and bountiful than seems humanly possible just 30 games into another season...
...That prospect could lead to more boycotting of Florida's convention spots. A meeting of the American Advertising Federation will go on next month at Disney World because it is too late to reschedule. But the AAF said it would turn the meeting into a protest rally to urge repeal...
Confusion at the level of theory has put no damper on the orgy of speculation about potential applications. Some ideas involve upgrading existing superconducting technology; others push marginal technology into the realm of the profitable; still others raise the prospect of entirely new uses of the phenomenon...
When President Reagan imposed trade sanctions against Japan last month, the prospect was raised of an all-out economic war between the two nations. Last week, with the $300 million worth of sanctions in place, Japanese and American officials were scrambling to defuse tensions. As a prelude to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's visit to Washington this week, Special Envoy Shintaro Abe was dispatched to the White House to outline a plan to reduce Japan's $59 billion trade surplus with the U.S. Meanwhile, a U.S. delegation in Tokyo urged the Japanese to lower barriers to American goods...
...proposals -- aimed at reducing his country's irritating surplus -- that Nakasone will present during his visit. The measures involve sustained efforts to boost Japanese consumer demand and thus imports. Japan also plans to encourage the lending of perhaps as much as $30 billion to Third World debtor nations. The prospect of the changes, however, did nothing to strengthen the U.S. dollar: last week it fell below 140 yen for the first time in more than 35 years...