Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Filly's overwhelmingly Harvard character does not foster romance; "The prospects for picking-up are futile," according to one experienced Eliot house male. Women echo the lament: "Guys never buy girls drinks; girls are left to fend for themselves," says an anonymous Lowell House senior. But if you sight a prospect, the unassuming lines are the best. If you see some interest, offer to buy (or wait to offered) an iced tea (the Filly's most popular drink); this indicates that both of you are speaking the same language...
...What prospect, then, do Quad students have that their homes will ever match the physical splendor enjoyed by River residents? College officials in the know say they sincerely want to translate months of architectural planning into a transformed Quad. Residents there, citing years of perceived neglect by College officials, are still waiting to see the bulldozers. Harvard fundraisers may hold the key this spring to how quickly renovations start...
Hard-pressed farmers now face an additional worry--the prospect of the most sweeping shake-up of Government agricultural policies in half a century. Since the Depression, Washington has poured more than $115 billion into propping up agricultural prices through subsidies and related forms of assistance. Last year alone, federal farm programs cost $7.3 billion, and this year they could run as high as $15 billion. Next month the Reagan Administration will propose to Congress a drastic overhaul of the whole costly system of price and income supports for farmers. The policy shift would slash $7 billion a year from...
...continuation of moderate oil prices ($15 to $30 per barrel over the period), increasing economic power for Japan and the gang of four, based on continued success as exporters of manufactures, and continuing slow growth and rising unemployment in most of Western Europe. It would also include the prospect of continuing deterioration of economic performance in most of Africa, and of slow growth in Latin America, as these countries maintain their anti-competitive policies such as overvalued exchange rates and low to negative domestic interest rates...
That is a prospect that the superpowers faced once before and decided to avoid. They realized in the early '70s that virtually no matter what they did to defend themselves, in the end offense would always prevail. That fact seemed built into the sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the relative ease with which one side could proliferate its offenses in order to overwhelm the other side's defenses...