Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naively, I hadn't even thought about the prospect of an anti-apartheid boycott until I read the "Sports People" column in last Sunday's New York Times. In a non-threatening tidbit, the Times reported that Harry Edwards, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, announced that he would lead a boycott if South African athletes were allowed to compete...
Even as Nicaragua dangled the prospect of a change of course, Sandinista soldiers launched a one-day incursion into neighboring Honduras in pursuit of the contra guerrillas. After being repulsed by the contras, the Sandinistas returned to the attack at week's end. At least one Honduran soldier was killed and several others were wounded in the second incursion, leading the Honduran military to declare the border area a "zone of military emergency...
...White House fully intends to raise the contra aid issue in Congress again, perhaps in two to three weeks. Increasingly uneasy as they pondered Ortega's East bloc journey, Democrats led by House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill met late last week to consider that prospect. Afterward, O'Neill reiterated his opposition to direct contra aid and pronounced the embargo to be premature. "Economic embargoes," said the Speaker, "should follow the failure of diplomacy rather than following the failure of the Reagan Administration to get its way in Congress." Nonetheless, as the impact of Ortega's Moscow pilgrimage continued...
...schools. One has only to visit the Morgan--or a lesser but still excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge and canal in a few electric jottings of bister ink--seems remote...
...reach. The youthful, center-left candidate gained an unofficial 48% of the votes cast in Peru's April 14 election, a better than 2-to-1 lead over Lima's Marxist mayor, Alfonso Barrantes Lingan. But Garcia needed an outright majority to win, and the two rivals faced the prospect of a runoff election...