Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Town officials are hunkering down for a long court fight against what they call forced housing." Rumor has it that a few hotheads are forming a violent, Klan-like squad. But even residents bitter about the prospect of black neighbors are, for the most part, unhysterical. "We don't want them living here," a Western Electric worker says, "but I don't think we'd have shooting or anything like that." A Polish-American welder is similarly resigned: "I'll stand it as long as I can, and then leave Cicero if I have...
...Dozier triggered the most extensive manhunt in Italian history. That investigation not only led to Dozier's rescue but Mario Moretti netted dozens of guerrillas as well. The police drew up psychological profiles of Red Brigades members that explored their revolutionary ardor and probable reaction to the prospect of life imprisonment, and then zeroed in on those who seemed likely to turn informant in exchange for a lighter sentence. The tactic worked, and the confessions snowballed. The mood of the country also changed, for the Moro and Dozier incidents, combined with the spree of violence, cost the terrorists what...
...stood in a seat (for the House of Commons) that I had no prospect of winning," he said yesterday is an IOP forum. "But I came away with the knowledge that people an individuals and the voter is a much more rational, worthy person than the political cynics would have you believe," he added...
...central mechanism with which students could coordinate something like a meaningful teaching reform campaign or divestiture drive. Undergraduate government, with or without newfangled committee flow charts and a $60,000 budget, inspires little vigorous participation. The vast array of Harvard's other non-academic activities far out-shine the prospect of tedious debates which often end in the same broad realization: Institutional reform evolves on a geological time scale ill-suited to four-year visitors. Moreover, the House system and the cheery residential chauvinism it guarantees suffice for making minor living improvements and expressing whatever school spirit exists...
...From a low of 30% in opinion polls last year, the Social Democrats have rebounded to 41%. The proenvironment, antimissile Green Party is enjoying 6% in the polls, and could well displace the F.D.P. from its traditional role as West Germany's pivotal third party. The prospect of the uncompromising Greens holding the parliamentary balance of power is unsettling to both major parties...