Word: prospectively
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...prospect of turmoil in the strategic islands sent a shudder through Washington. After damning the "cowardly and despicable" assassination, the Reagan Administration called for a thorough and independent investigation of the killing. Even officials who knew and liked Aquino took pains to point out that nothing must jeopardize the special relationship between the two countries and, specifically, the vital U.S. bases at Clark Field and Subic Bay in the Philippines. The problem was doubly sensitive because Reagan is scheduled to visit Manila in November as part of a five-nation Asian tour. Despite calls for its cancellation by individuals including...
...that process has been derailed, Marcos faces the prospect of spending his final years in power without any clear direction. Under martial law, the Philippine military has been transformed from a small, apolitical force into a bloated guarantor of Marcos' power. The country's institutions, from city halls to the courts to the press, have been emasculated. The economy has been crippled by "crony capitalism," a system that saw the government pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a handful of companies controlled by the President's friends...
...prospect of FBI agents giving lie-detector tests to the CIA director and the White House chief of staff is the stuff of political potboilers. Yet that may be the latest twist in the slithering story of the purloined papers from Jimmy Carter's White House that turned up in the hands of Ronald Reagan's campaign aides. FBI investigators working on the case have suggested that conflicting statements by top Administration officials be resolved by having them roll up their sleeves and submit to polygraphs...
...response, thousands of Christians in southern Lebanon protested by closing their shops and building roadblocks of smoldering tires and barbed wire. With the Syrians still showing no signs that they are prepared to remove any of their 60,000 troops from Lebanese soil, the country once again faced the prospect of increasing violence, together with a de facto partition...
When the two plants were abandoned in early 1982, the people of the Northwest were enraged at the prospect of paying off the bonds through higher electric bills, with no hope of getting anything in return. Citizens' groups with such names as Irate Rate Payers and the Light Brigade sprang up and held town meetings to protest. Complained Mark Reis, executive director of a Seattle energy-conservation coalition: "They promised us power without cost, and they delivered cost without power." Some of the utilities tried to renege on their take-or-pay contracts with Whoops, and that raised...