Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reinstating democracy. But if Washington continues to ignore the center in favor of Marcos, increasingly frustrated centrists will move to the extreme left. Then the Communists will constitute the only viable alternative to Marcos. And unless the latter dismantles the authoritarian state apparatus he himself erected--an unlikely prospect--the Communists will take power and the U.S. will be out in the cold. No moral argument here, just sheer pragmatism...
Perhaps the fact that the candidates have gone so far as to suggest that they are open to a female Vice-Presidential candidate is encouraging although their hypocritical optimism and enthusiasm about the prospect is not. NOW members, and all feminist activists, should continue to pressure politicians to enact feminist legislations; they should not allow false hopes to be raised which would cause NOW members to slacken their efforts. The idea of a woman in the White House, even in the second position, is not unthinkable: only the perception of that possibility is still prohibitive. And that perception...
When the bomb split open the universe and revealed the prospect of the infinitely extraordinary, it also revealed the oldest, simplest, commonest, most neglected and most important of facts: that each man is eternally and above all else responsible for his own soul...
...most the Nationalists could hope to fall back, into the vast reaches of south China and onto the island of Formosa. But barring a miracle, they had no prospect of stopping the Red tide...
...these were brought into prospect by the Marshall suggestion. Europe had a chance to work out a blueprint of how the U.S. could save Europe whole-which would cost the U.S. much less than trying to save it piece by piece...