Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that country, and I know about the morticians who travel the streets each morning to collect the bodies of those summarily dispatched the night before by Salvadoran security forces." He said the U.S. ought to take up the offer made by some rebel leaders to negotiate a settlement, a prospect most analysts regard as highly dubious...
...less promising prospect for theatrical adaptation could hardly be imagined; it is difficult even to conceive of what convinced the mainstage selection committee to lavish a coveted slot and budget on so ill-conceived a venture. And in viewing the results, one is reminded, sadly, of the mathematical axiom that zero, no matter how many times, multiplied, can never equal anything but zero. A typical verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow...
Prins predicts his company will continue prospering despite the twin threats of increased competition and the prospect that falling gasoline prices and a strengthening economy will tempt passengers to drive their cars instead of taking the bus. One reason for Prins' optimism: "As the economy picks up, more people are planning to take tours." Indeed, Jefferson's 1983 tour bookings are already up 80% over last year's, and its European jaunts are almost sold...
...birthday over the weekend. Now living in a special house with private rooms at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the former headmistress of Virginia's fashionable Madeira School for girls spends her mornings making quilts or writing, her afternoons working with expectant mothers. Even the prospect of eventual freedom holds no great joy. "I'm like a Pilgrim woman captured by Indians," says Harris, "who, when she is returned, belongs to neither world...
Having subjected Evans once to the prospect of facing death and having inflicted on him some of the physical pain of the execution as well, forcing him once again to go to the chair--this time merely to finish what was previously begun--seems not only cruel but unnecessary. For the convicted criminal, as for the terminally ill patient, surely the process of dying begins long before the physical process of death itself. Advocates of capital punishment as a deterrent should admit that the experience of an unsuccessful execution attempt is grisly enough to act as a sufficient deterrent against...