Word: prospectively
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...these noble ideals and aims will never be achieved in Cambridge unless Harvard's administration gives more serious and thorough consideration to the prospect of recognizing Greek-lettered organizations on this campus...
...world. "Many millions of years will have to pass," he writes, "before a beetle particularly loved by God . . . will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light." It is a prospect that nobody else could have imagined...
...merge into regional units or sell out to the giants. Ultimately, the number of systems could dwindle to a handful. "The same thing happened in the movie industry 50 years ago," says Robert Thomson, Tele- Communications' vice president for government relations. "They once had many more studios." With that prospect in mind, the major cable companies are scrambling today to make sure they do not wind up on the cutting-room floor tomorrow...
...With the U.S. economy in the seventh year of a record peacetime expansion, signs are multiplying that for many Americans the fat times are coming to an end. In their place, economists prophesy everything from a soft landing, which could mean weak growth but little pain, to the ominous prospect of a deep recession. Few seers doubt, however, that a slowdown is at hand. "This has been a long expansion," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Company Economic Advisors, a leading consulting firm. "But the spring...
...elections with impassioned attacks on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, but failed to sweep Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney out of office. Last week, conceding the need for "fresh leadership," Turner said he would resign after a date is set to choose a successor. Likeliest prospect: Quebec's Jean Chretien, a former Justice and Finance minister...