Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exressed the same apprehension, the same terror. True, he spewed forth some of the usual rhetoric--much like Secretary of State Haig. But there seemed to be a sincerity, a desire for improvement behind Gerassimov's words. And, no doubt, the mass of Soviets finds the prospect of a nuclear holocaust just as abhorent as most Americans...
...wish to commend your magazine for the bold, incisive look into the terrible threat of nuclear war from which it is unlikely a winner can emerge [March 29]. The prospect of a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is more than the issue of the '80s. The control and dismantling of these weapons of massive death present the greatest social and environmental challenge in the history of mankind. A fateful juncture in the course of human civilization and in the evolution of life on our planet is now upon the citizens of this country...
...Europe open to invasion by superior Soviet conventional forces. The President did address the problem by proposing that both he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev speak at a United Nations disarmament conference in New York in June and confer with each other in the process. That is an uncertain prospect in view of Brezhnev's health, and in any case the Administration has made little progress in working out an agreed-upon strategy for nuclear-arms reduction talks with the Soviets. Without such a strategy, talks with Brezhnev would have limited value...
...Dreamlike and fantastic" is how Schell (correctly) dismisses the prospect of a pre-emptive Soviet missile attack on the U.S.'s supposedly vulnerable land forces. Unfortunately, the same is true of his prescription for what ails mankind. If world government is possible, it will almost certainly be a long time coming-much longer than Schell's sense of urgency suggests we have left...
...sudden prospect of an all-out military victory cheered Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's countrymen at a time when the government appears to have finally consolidated its powers. Until recently, political stability seemed beyond reach. Power struggles had racked virtually every sector of the government, and the economy was on the brink of ruin. An assassination campaign by leftist Mujahedin guerrillas claimed the lives of nearly the entire top tier of the government last year. Most costly of all has been the war with Iraq, which bled off $7 billion, or an estimated 17% of the government's annual...