Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reluctance to travel: "I cannot go without being sure whether I can come back or not." The real obstacle to Walesa's visit, experts said, did not center on obtaining a visa to the United States, however much the Polish authorities may have disliked the prospect of the labor leader decrying the Communist regime in a well-publicized Western speech...
...addition, the contras have been stepping up the frequency and ferocity of their raids in recent weeks. There is fear of more attacks as the counterrevolutionaries try to establish permanent bases on Nicaraguan soil. "That is a terrible prospect," says the Sandinistas' Ramirez. "Already this year we have had 500 military and civilian casualties in the fighting with the contras. In the U.S. the proportional loss would be about 50,000 people...
...trying to enroll at least 180% of the region's 2.6 million "" unregistered black voters in an effort to unseat "pro-Reagan Democratic Boll Weevils and Republican Reaganites," including Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Jackson has been openly flirting with the prospect of running for President and promotes the notion of a black candidacy as a way to maintain political drive. "We are going to the White House," Jackson says. "We are going from the guttermost to the uppermost." Running, he says, can be a strategy for attracting more voters...
...soap-opera posturing was the question of who would govern the city for the next four years. Says Washington, 61, who was elected on April 12 with 51.8% of the vote: "It appears that some members of the city council are apparently experiencing a nervous reaction to the prospect of reform." Shortly after the election, at what was supposed to be a "unity" breakfast, Washington had confided some of his reform notions to Vrdolyak. As might have been predicted, the city's craftiest politician did not respond eagerly to the news that he would be stripped...
...result of Thatcher's four years in office. Unemployment now stands at 13.6%-21A times the level when she took office-and it is sure to rise during the coming year. Labor has called for a $17.5 billion reflation of the economy to create jobs, a prospect that frightens some moderate economists, while the Alliance is proposing a more restrained program of government spending to boost the economy. The Tories will respond that inflation is the lowest in 15 years, and the government's tough, antistrike policy has tamed the trade unions...