Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-to-year basis, the Navy uses it for observation and training. And of course it is a long-run strategic holding in the event of any East/West conflict. Plans under consideration in the '70s to gradually demobilize it due to its expense have been dropped, with no prospect for revival...
...Arquette) at a mid-town diner as each pretended to enjoy a solitary meal. In no time at all, the two exchange phone numbers, and after checking the cable T.V. schedule for the evening, Paul decides to try his luck with the lady from uptown. Tempting him with the prospect of purchasing one of her off-beat roommate's bagel and cream cheese sculptures, Marcie invites our hero to... what else?... her loft for a post--midnight nightcap. And so another unsuspecting Daniel enters the lion...
...Reagan launched what appeared to be a pre-emptive strike. Star Wars, he insisted, was not "a bargaining chip." The prospect of a space-based defense, he said, "is too important to the world to have us be willing to trade that off for a different number of nuclear missiles when there are already more than enough to blow both countries out of the world...
...lounging next door to its great kaboom. It is both smug and edgy at the same time. Now comes another agent of doomsday, this one actually killing people and doubling the number of its victims every ten months as if to reverse the logic of Thomas Malthus. The prospect of nuclear holocaust may be terrible, but the mind takes certain perverse psychological comforts from it. It has not happened, for one thing. And if it does happen, it will be over in a flash. AIDS is much slower and smaller, and may not add up ultimately to a world-historical...
Midfielder Cathy Dawson, a First Team High School All-American from Pittsburgh, Penn., is the top prospect in a crop that also includes Amy Winston of Little Rock, Ark. and Californian Alison Keene...