Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVE TO ADMIT that the prospect of Spring Break was the only thing keeping me going during the last few weeks of March. Once it was imminent though, I was faced with the difficult decision of what to do with my week off. Most of my friends were pushing Florida, and after slogging through my third miserable New England winter, the prospect of sun, surf, and bronzed bodies was enticing. The problem that remained, however, was how to get down there...
...prospect of practice in Briggs doesn't exactly excite many people. "It's a real chore to schedule that facility," Wentzell said...
...That prospect could hardly be described as heartening for U.S. officials, but some of them were taking consolation in the Salvadoran military's apparent willingness to accept the election result-even if the winner is Duarte, who charged the government with election fraud when he lost the 1972 contest to Colonel Arturo Armando Molina. An important reason for the military's new attitude, of course, has been heavy pressure from the Reagan Administration, backed by the certainty of a U.S. military aid cutoff if the soldiers try to overturn the election result. "The military leaders have said that...
...countries, with the Lebombo mountains as a backdrop and hippos snorting in the nearby Nkomati River, Prime Minister P.W. Botha of apartheid South Africa and President Samora Machel of black-ruled, Marxist Mozambique last week sat down together for the first time and faced something other than the prospect of killing. As a crowd of 1,000, including representatives of black African states, watched from the tiers of a hastily constructed grandstand near the border town of Komatipoort, Botha and Machel bent over a tamboutiwood table to sign a nonaggression and good-neighborliness treaty, then smilingly exchanged their gold Parker...
...Fairuza Balk, 9, a Vancouver schoolgirl who emigrated to Canada from her native California. There will be a host of new characters, including Tik Tok the robot and Billina the talking hen. Sounding already like a seasoned pro, Balk is not brought up short in the least by the prospect of filling Garland's ruby slippers. "I am Dorothy," she says. "I saw the film. Judy Garland was in one of my dreams and said to me, 'This part was mine. I know you'll play it well...