Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week as he launched a new campaign to dispel the hard-line image of his Administration on the thorny, arcane and all-important issue of strategic nuclear arms control. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Reagan announced changes in U.S. nuclear bargaining positions that offered, as he put it, "the prospect of new progress" in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which reconvened last week in Geneva. Said he: "These actions reflect a bipartisan consensus on arms control, and new flexibility in the negotiations-steps to be viewed seriously by the Soviets and all others who have a stake...
...trap backfired when reporters from Advertising Age, a trade publication, began to ask questions. Their story resulted in red faces all around. Advertising Age insists that its "journalistic mission" required it to reveal the operation. Meanwhile, the authorities are still keeping close watch on the post office box in Prospect, Ill., where a few coupons have already been sent for redemption...
Many Congressmen are equally skeptical about that prospect. Last week the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives used parliamentary procedures for the third time to put off a vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to cut off funding for the Administration's ill-concealed covert support for armed Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries who oppose their country's leftist government. Clement Zablocki, chairman of the House committee, called the latest maneuverings at State "not helpful" in the long-term effort to prevent an anti-Administration vote. Argued liberal Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts: "The Administration is clearly...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher returned to London from the Williamsburg summit, a crushing Conservative victory in this week's parliamentary elections seemed all but assured. Still, there were unexpected signs of voter uneasiness with the prospect of a Thatcher landslide. A poll by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) showed the Tories with a comfortable though dwindling eleven-point lead over Labor. Yet the survey also indicated an upsurge in the fortunes of the centrist Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance, mostly at Thatcher's expense. In a week the level of support for the Conservatives dropped from...
...militant Labor government if too many people "thought it safe to give other parties a protest vote; that is the greater danger, make no mistake." Her remark seemed to lend credence to the Alliance's belief that an increasing number of Britons are as worried at the prospect of an overwhelming Thatcher victory as they are anxious about the chaos and leftward movement within the Labor Party...