Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the prospect of continuing medical damage, last week's tragedy may have a long-term salutary effect: it awakened a resolve across India that the episode not be repeated. "It is clear that safety standards in this country are unsatisfactory, and that every city with large industry has become a danger zone," editorialized the Indian Express, one of India's most prestigious English-language dailies. It was equally clear that the country, which in its 37 years of independence has weathered floods and famines, riots and rebellions, would nonetheless be haunted and chastened by last week's disaster...
...horrible dimensions of the accident last week stunned Union Carbide's executives, employees and shareholders. Jittery investors dumped the company's stock, which plunged 12 points to close the week at 37. But the problems for the company may be only beginning. Union Carbide faces the prospect of a long, costly series of lawsuits that could endanger the corporation's financial future...
...available organs and funds require some compromise on the issue of transplants, yet the limited capacity approach can be only part of the solution. The issue of organ transplant distinguishes itself from other pressing medical controversies, like abortion, because it creates a competition that entails the somewhat morbid prospect of the buying and selling of organs, and thus lives, for profit. The "limited capacity" scenario allows for "retrospective review," i.e. hindsight, because it slows down transplant technology. However, this slowdown could actually limit the possibility of resolving the competition by removing the constraints--by developing the technology so that organs...
Faced with the prospect of ballooning deficits well into the next decade, the President is trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. His plane call for a $42 billion reduction in the deficit with most of that savings being carved out of already beleaguered programs. Among those services hardest hit are Medicare, which faces a $19 billion cut over the next three years, financial aid for college students, which will be frozen at current levels, and many programs for urban and rural development now likely cancelled altogether...
...situation in Nicaragua is less hopeful, and the choice for Washington painfully limited. There is no serious prospect that, by themselves, the counterrevolutionaries, or contras, could overthrow the Sandinista regime, much as that would be in the American national interest. But they have proved important as an instrument to make the regime more malleable; there is little evidence to support the opposite view, that they solidified the regime. By cutting off aid to the contras, Congress irresponsibly deprived the U.S. of an important bargaining counter...