Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large portrait of Brezhnev, draped in black, that had been set up on a table just beyond the receiving line. Nearly every delegation had stopped to face the portrait for a moment of silent contemplation. But Bush and Shultz, either deliberately or because they were absorbed by the prospect of the forthcoming meeting with Andropov, barely paused to glance...
Rose Bird no doubt relished the prospect. Had the voters obliged, Bird, the first woman to serve as her state's chief justice, would have been swearing in the nation's first elected black Governor, California's Thomas Bradley, on Jan. 3. Instead the voters chose George Deukmejian three weeks ago, and Democrat Bird may not even be asked to perform her traditional inaugural role. For Deukmejian, now the state's Republican attorney general, is an unrelenting Bird critic determined to reverse what he sees as the excessive liberalism of the chief and her court...
...elect is now planning various procedural tactics to stop Brown. But the court will continue to have a large liberal-leaning majority, consisting of Jerry Brown's five choices and Stanley Mosk, named by Governor Pat Brown (with only Reagan Appointee Frank Richardson right of center). Thus the prospect is for more political quarrels that will do nothing to revive the prestige of what was once a peerless ornament of American jurisprudence. -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Joseph Pilcher/Los Angeles
Hedgeman called it the responsibility of American's minorities and worsen to educate the white male dominated society of the importance of issues such as nuclear war and international trade. "We as African Americans have special concern over the prospect of nuclear war because we, more so than any other group, have suffered from violence" in the United States...
While Hoffman says he's not scared by the possibility of an accident his mother says that she "is naturally apprehensive and nervous about it," and especially anxious about the prospect of her son's first launch into the void of space...