Word: prospectively
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...Gabrielle Napolitano succeeds in reversing the university's action, the danger is that she may establish a legal precedent, one that could erode the right of Princeton and other private universities to act as the sole judge of misconduct within the province of academic behavior. That prospect is viewed with unease on the Princeton campus and beyond. Says Princeton Senior Marshall Merrifield, chairman of the Princeton student honor committee: "The general feeling here seems to be that we have groups set up to deal with these questions, and that they should handle them-not the courts...
That dismal prospect was central to a political drama that began two weeks ago. Senate Republican leaders met with Administration officials to cobble together some kind of budget for fiscal 1983 that would produce overall federal deficits less gaping than those foreseeable under President Reagan's initial proposals. They agreed on a resolution calling for, among other things, $40 billion in "savings" to be taken out of the $568 billion in Social Security expenditures now expected over the next three fiscal years. The $40 billion represents about the amount by which Social Security benefit payments are expected to exceed...
...from employers and employees, largely because Chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw it as a method to wean the masses away from socialism. As he explained candidly: "Whoever has a pension for his old age is far more content and far easier to handle than one who has no such prospect." Similar plans were adopted by most other major industrial nations over the next three decades...
Western Europeans were less concerned with the substance of Reagan's proposal than with the fact that he had at last made one. The President is scheduled to travel to Paris, Rome, London, Bonn and West Berlin in three weeks, and he faces the prospect of large street demonstrations by members of the Continent's burgeoning peace movement. In Bonn, as many as 150,000 protesters are expected to mass on the banks of the Rhine across from the building where Reagan will be meeting with the leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. The tone...
Meanwhile, Argentina seemed perfectly willing to face the prospect of all-out war. In coastal cities in the southern portion of the country, blackouts had become common as a precaution against air raids, and schoolchildren drilled for attacks by crouching beneath their desks. The government appealed for "patriotic" financial contributions to the war effort from the public and received more than $20 million in cash and valuables, including Aberdeen Angus steers and Mercedes-Benz automobiles...