Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to say to anyone? Still, he offers a goal, a purpose, in a place where purposes are hard to come by or confused. This day, then, will offer one last look at the torn half city. There is an odd sense of loss and regret at the prospect of leaving. Why? Nothing is whole here. The buildings and bodies broken. Nothing is safe. What has happened so far is terrible; what may happen, more terrible still. Yet this is the center of the world for the moment. This parched, sunstruck, ruined place is where the world's heart...
After all, aloofness, as I recall, is very typically Harvardian in character. In any event, if we invite them all to leave, we embarrass the entire Admissions Office, and what is more important, face the unpleasant prospect of building a new team from scratch while suffering a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of every other Ivy League team. What kind of low-grade moron or morons started all this-at Harvard of all places? I suggest a complete review of our admissions procedures...
...officials guiding the renovations of Lowell House and the Standish half of Winthrop are more cautious when expressing optimism over the prospect for completion by September. The project, with costs roughly equivalent to that of the stadium work marks the first segment of a seven to 10 year rehabilitation of the Houses, estimated to cost $35.40 million when completed...
...film also raises the prospect of computers overstepping their bounds, becoming the man-made monsters who eventually turn on their creators. Inside the system, the captured programs are told to free themselves from the shackles of their users, to abandon their "superstitious" belief that they exist only for humans. Dellinger, who designed MCP, eventually becomes its slave as the wayward program blackmails its master into helping take over the Kremlin and the Pentagon, no less...
Over the long term, there is no prospect of success in the fight against skyrocketing health-care costs unless the Congress and the Administration work together to give the problem the priority it deserves. So far, that has not happened, and the longer the subject is postponed, the worse it seems destined to get. The fact is that as long as the fever of rising costs burns in the business of medical science, the economy can never be totally cured of inflation. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago and Jeanne Saddler/Washington