Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Presumably," the letter concludes, "those demonstrating so insistently against the prospect of admitting James Watt to the K-School as a fellow will contain their emotions upon learning that he is in fact the new Dean of the Faculty...
...immediate problem that needs the most serious attention is the prospect that we shall be moving the arms race into outer space. Without getting into the scientific and technical debate as to whether antiballistic missile capabilities are possible through such esoteric space weapons, two things should be clear. First, we must assume that the Soviets will be able to do whatever we manage to do, after spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the effort. Secondly, we can be sure that if we or the Soviets, or both, begin to approach success in devising such space weapons, there will...
...prospect of GM's gaining access to Toyota's small-car know-how sent fear into the boardrooms of Ford, Chrysler and American Motors. GM already accounts for 60% of all U.S. sales of American-made cars, while Toyota has 25% of the market for imports. "I don't care what kind of fig-leaf consent order they try to cover it up with," said Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca after last week's FTC decision. "It's not right, and I will do everything in my power to see that the American public gets...
Father Robert Fortin, 51, the American Roman Catholic chaplain who holds Mass each Sunday for many in the foreign community at the U.S. embassy snack bar or in his apartment on Kutuzovsky Prospect, has come up with a practical way for his parishioners to ease their consciences without fear of being overheard. In a variation on traditional Roman Catholic practice, the chaplain granted general absolution to all who attended special services in the holiday season. But for those who still want to speak individually with him, Fortin offers a "walk in the woods" procedure that he hopes will foil eavesdroppers...
...circ. 402,000), for $100 million to perhaps the ultimate absentees: Canadians. The buyer, the Toronto Sun Publishing Corp., has three Canadian dailies that specialize in short, sensational stories and photos of bare-chested men and barely dressed women. The Houston Chronicle (circ. 459,000), perhaps shaken by the prospect of a rivalry in what has been one of the U.S.'s least competitive two-newspaper cities, sent a reporter to Toronto to survey the Canadian group's flagship Sun. His report on what might come to Texas ran under the headline A SHOCKING CHANGE...