Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Court officials refused all comment on the prospect of a Monday decision in the Missouri case, which is called Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services. And in the absence of any hard facts, rumors abounded...
This grim fantasy is engendered by exposure, in rapid succession, to the films underlying those last two presold titles and by the prospect of The Karate Kid III, Lethal Weapon II, Nightmare on Elm Street V and, heaven forfend, Friday the 13th VIII. Not to mention James Bond umpty-ump. The basic criticism of sequels is as familiar as it is correct: they represent the triumph of commercial caution over creative daring...
...arrangement would give Warner stockholders a premium, reflecting the fact that in effect Time was acquiring a slightly larger company with many more outstanding shares, but would leave Time's stockholders with only the prospect that their stock would appreciate over the long run. Moreover, the process of getting Government approval and working out legal details required a 3 1/2-month gap between the announcement and the stockholders' vote on the deal, which left enough time for a hostile bidder to marshal his forces...
...worst prospect for both U.S. business and strategic interests would be for hard-liners to win the power struggle and launch a massive crackdown, rounding up dissident students and workers by the tens of thousands and shipping them off to the Chinese Gulag, a little-known but long-established system of political prisons. "Then all the linkages will snap," says a State Department official. That is exactly what some policymakers fear is about to happen, and they see little that the U.S. can do to head it off. Says a White House official: "The U.S. has no influence over...
...will save his industry millions of dollars, but because he is, well, a friend. Perhaps Tony Coelho really believed it when he said that junk-bond wizard Michael Milken "is constantly thinking about what can be done to make this a better world." Now under indictment, Milken faces the prospect of doing his thinking in prison...