Word: prospectively
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Trying to downplay the White House's responsibility for such a dismal prospect, Feldstein and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan have argued repeatedly in recent weeks that the U.S. is plagued by a high rate of "structural unemployment," which cannot be cured by the Government's traditional pump-priming tactics of boosting spending or expanding the money supply. The term structural unemployment is a fuzzy concept that has been bandied about by economists for years, but has no clear-cut definition. Generally speaking, it refers to people out of work not as a result of a recession, but because...
Before he got into trouble in Argentina. Timerman was ostensibly a journalist Judging by The Longest War, his current profession is conscience mercenary. That is, if a prospect of profit exists. Timerman will suffer, feel awful and decry all injustice. With sweeping flourishes. Timerman is a kin of prose Whitman who sympathizes with almost everything, "weeping dolefully" for the events in Lebanon and the decline of moral Israel. He does this by pretending he is an insider, a native with a bona fide claim to all the world's ills. He declares without hesitation that since his first reading...
Meanwhile the fear of war remains. If there is a shooting war between the two countries, Honduras will be at a decided disadvantage against the larger and better equipped Nicaraguan army. In that case, the U.S. could be tempted to intervene more openly. For Washington, that prospect underscores the perils of becoming too deeply involved in the region's complex and volatile affairs...
Glearson, who now selects the annual recipient of the Putnam Scholarship, said that "only six or seven schools all over the country have any prospect" of winning the contest...
...Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin S. Cobb described the fight fan: "He is a soft-fleshed, hard-faced person who keeps his own pelt safe from the bruises, but whose eyes glisten and whose hackles lift at the prospect of seeing someone else whipped to a souffle...