Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need for other organs runs into many thousands. Medical insurance firms generally decline payment for such operations on the ground that they are still experimental, though Blue Cross of California has paid between $95,000 and $100,000 for each of two heart transplants this year. The prospect of the Federal Government taking over the financing is none too cheering either, since the Social Security system is already staggering under a burden of an estimated $85 billion in annual medical costs...
...Star Wars program has a certain appealing plausibility: defense is better than offense, safety behind a shield in the sky is better than the "balance of terror." Technological feasibility aside, however, the opponents of Star Wars seem to have the better case. The prospect of one side more or less safe while the other side is open to attack is untenable in the nuclear age. Moreover, in the absence of a new bargain with the Soviets, such a situation is bound to be relatively short-lived. Sooner or later the Soviets can catch up with American technology, the most notable...
...could prompt the far right to sabotage his government. Moreover, it is far from clear what can come of this dialogue. It is premature to hope that the guerrillas will put down their arms, trusting in the government's security guarantees, and take part in elections. But the prospect of such an outcome is at least somewhat more plausible than it seemed a year...
...THOUGHTFUT and farsighted voter, nothing could have been more chilling than the prospect of Ronald Reagan casting the next Supreme Court. Somehow though, this far-reaching concern got lost amidst competing claims about who could best tame the deficit or who would rein in the runaway arms race. Sure, the President mumbled something about how well he did with Sandra Day O'Connor and Mondale occasionally warned against the perils of Reagan court, but next to the obvious and immediate issues of budgets and bombs the Court received watcher put it. "For one of the most profound issues...
...open in New York City in January. On the other hand, he might well love Cats, a smash musical hit on both sides of the Atlantic, which uses as its libretto his Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1936). For while Eliot was horrified by the prospect of invasions of his privacy, he also longed for the popular acclaim that not even his most successful plays achieved. He was always at war with himself, and the disembodied voice of his best poetry emerged from the white center of this conflict. Ackroyd does a superb job of identifying...