Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, ARENA'S D'Aubuisson promises to wage a war of extermination against the guerrillas and their supporters, and draws cheers from well-to-do Salvadorans by vowing to return already nationalized industries to private hands. To his lower-income countrymen he holds out the vague prospect of full employment (40% of the labor force is currently jobless), but offers few concrete proposals for attaining it. In a recent bid to modify his reputation as a leading force behind El Salvador's death squads, D'Aubuisson has taken to adding in speeches that...
Such an Iranian victory would certainly appear to represent the worst possible outcome. The prospect of holy war sweeping down on the relatively stable Persian Gulf regimes should strike fear into the hearts of all the Middle Eastern people particularly, and in general of all the people around the world hurt by the oil shocks of the 1970s (which means everyone) Iran has reserved to itself the right to close the critical Straits of Hormuz, through which 60 percent of the West's oil flows. The fanatic ideologues behind the revolutionary Iranian regime would not be averse to a hobbling...
BORED WITH the prospect of the usual hometown summer job--but put off by the price of a European grand tour--many Harvard students are discovering they can have their vacation and earn...
...prospect of spending even $100,000, not unusual for a major full-dress murder trial, is enough to threaten some small towns and counties with penury. Under a turn-of-the-century New York law, for instance, Rockland County must foot the Brink's bill because the murders and robbery occurred there, even though changes of venue moved the first trial to Orange County and the second to Westchester. To pay for the first trial, Rockland last year had to double a new county sales tax. The huge expenses in the second have touched off a war of words...
...never possible, he says, to cut taxes, boost defense spending and lower the budget deficit all at the same time. Moreover, "there had been no radical Reagan revolution. Total taxes and total expenditures were still as large as ever, relative the G.N.P. and there was no prospect of any significant reduction for years ahead...