Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Shultz asserted in Brussels that "we have before us the prospect for a good INF agreement, and we have the basic elements in place." At week's end White House sources were speculating about a Gorbachev visit to the U.S. to attend a summit conference with Reagan in September or October. That would imply a pact ready for signature: Gorbachev would not come otherwise...
...embarrassment of White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who declared early in the week that he "would not be surprised" if Shultz came home with a summit scheduled. Even so, Shultz and Shevardnadze both indicated that a summit, and by implication a missile agreement, is a strong prospect later this year...
...there is an abundance of undergraduates who decide to become doctors, lawyers, or assorted corporate workslaves because they can't think of anything better to do. They tend to be generally intelligent, in a wishy-washy nonspecific Harvard liberal arts sort of way, and mortally frightened of the unappealing prospect of not being wealthy...
Another reason no one wants to bring down the coalition is the prospect that new elections will not change anything. Pollsters predict that the next election will result in another deadlock and another unity government. In short, Likud and Labor may be stuck with each other for a long time to come...
Never have the stakes in a corporate battle been higher. After losing a crucial decision in the U.S. Supreme Court last week, Texaco faced the disastrous prospect of having to post a $10 billion bond in its epic legal fight with Pennzoil. As its stock plummeted and its credit began to dry up, the company was thrown into a financial crisis. Over the weekend, Texaco's board of directors gathered for an emergency meeting at the firm's White Plains, N.Y., headquarters. Following a marathon discussion, the directors chose a stunning course: the eighth largest U.S. industrial corporation (1986 sales...