Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where as many as 70,000 ) Haitians live, only 10,000 or so are professionals. A large number are hospital workers, blue-collar laborers and domestics who work long hours and earn low wages. In addition, many are illegal aliens living in constant fear of deportation. Even so, the prospect of returning to a country where the average annual per capita income is under $300 and the political future is still uncertain seems unlikely to set off an immediate rush homeward...
...told visiting Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts that the next summit with President Reagan must produce concrete results rather than the general statements about reducing the threat of war that concluded the first Gorbachev-Reagan meeting in Geneva last November. In a striking turnaround, Gorbachev seemed to enhance the prospect for a deal on missiles in Europe by stating that the Soviets would not insist that the U.S. first agree to abandon research on a space- based defense system (Star Wars). According to Kennedy, Gorbachev said "in emphatic and unmistakable terms that there are no preconditions for negotiating immediate reductions...
...were meager but whose brief and meteoric candidacy had fanned the desire of millions of her countrymen for political change. What had kept the mismatched sides in balance during the course of their 57-day election battle was a promise as potent in appeal as it was frail in prospect. The hope was that the issue would be decided democratically...
...race for the Republican nomination to succeed Reagan. Political pros are uncertain how big a factor he could be in the primaries, let alone the convention, but they are convinced that he could energize the Christian right and siphon votes from other candidates. True believers are tingling at the prospect. As ROBERTSON IN 1988 buttons blossomed, the amiable Virginian took the N.R.B. platform to denounce the evils of abortion, homosexuality and school violence, all to be overcome by a flood tide of moral regeneration. "We are going to see a change in this nation," he promised his listeners...
...little hope, though, is rolling into Sac City. After numerous meetings with an industrial search firm in Des Moines, the town leaders have turned up a hot prospect for new business: Fibercraft Inc., a division of Equity Automotive Corp. of Delano, Minn. The company will take over a 37,500-sq.-ft. warehouse abandoned in 1982 by Lear Siegler's Noble Division. Starting next month Fibercraft will turn out fiber-glass camping trailers and initially provide 40 precious jobs. In two years the payroll could rise to 100 people. "Everybody's excited," says Marilyn Hobbs, executive director of the Chamber...