Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realistically expect the lightly armed U.N. forces to put up a spirited battle for long against the invaders, but UNIFIL might have inhibited Jerusalem somewhat if the U.N. had made it clear that the blue-bereted forces would offer some resistance, thus confronting the Begin government with the unpleasant prospect of having to fire on troops from peaceful nations like...
...result, Rios Montt could be Guatemala's man on horseback for the foreseeable future. U.S. officials are not particularly distressed by that prospect. Says Ambassador Frederic Chapin: "We consider President Rios Montt a significant improvement over the previous President, and we hope to be able to work constructively with...
...Waidelich in Tulsa, Pickens proposed, as a "friendly offer," that Mesa pay $50 a share, or $1.8 billion, for 46% of Cities Service stock, plus $1.9 billion more in promissory notes and Mesa stock for the remaining 49% of Cities Service shares. The startled Waidelich, faced with the prospect of seeing his company disappear into a firm a fraction of its size, fought back the next day with a counteroffer. Cities Service proposed to buy Mesa for $17 a share, or $1 above the market price, for 51% of the company. At that point, Pickens decided to cancel his weekend...
Luckily, none of this talk distracted the players themselves. By the time the Sunnyside Park grass turned green the next March, the recess period conversation at Stillman Elementary School turned, as usual, to baseball. An not just to the game itself, but to the exciting prospect of new uniforms and a tight pennant race. No first fight no matter how ugly was going to kill Little League in Tenafly. The older folks could worry now and yell and scream later; no one pounding the base paths at Sunnyside had time to worry about such distractions...
Because of the cost and the comparative scarcity of the playback equipment, general-interest magazines on tape are a prospect for the future. But trade magazines, aimed at a specialized audience, can be justified both as a business expense and as an efficient way to get across what may essentially be visual information. A new camera will look much better going through its paces on tape than being described and diagrammed on a page...