Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawn chairs or stood setting up before the twinbill and leaving only after the third out of the fourteenth inning. In between innings, they joked with each other, reeling off the entire line-up (including the plate umpired of a 1960 double a game, reminiscing about a certain' prospect with a great forkball who never made it past the Pioneer League But once play began, their attention returned to the present...
...LIGHT OF the malaise affecting both students and student leaders, it's understandable that few have rejoiced at the prospect of a new government. Although students and Faculty who worked on the constitution claimed a ringing victory when 75-percent approved the new government in a three day referendum, attracting 58-percent of the campus, a number of circumstances surrounding the referendum show it to have been much less. In fact, the vote indicates in several ways the wide schism separating the few involved in student government and the great number who aren't illuminating the primary problem...
...after the Polynesian good-luck "Tiki" dolls. Martiki is the second largest mountain-top strip mine in the United States and therefore probably the world, shipping almost 3 million tons of coal each year. Martiki officials are clearly proud of their operation and sincere in their excitement at the prospect of resulting the landscape. Martiki's 18,000 acres cover two mountains on opposite sides of a steep valley. In about 25 years when the coal is gone and the strip-mined land is evened out, the entire area will be at a level about half way between the original...
...decades, the standard way to straighten out a child's curved spine was with a bulky back brace. Worn for up to eight years, it was not a pleasant prospect for the 25 out of 1,000 American teen-agers (90% girls) afflicted with spinal curvatures, or scoliosis. For those with severe curves, surgery often was required. It too had its unpleasant consequences, sometimes including nine months' confinement in a hip-to-chin plaster body cast...
When Golden Pond was completed, his wife Shirlee used the prospect of that little statuette as medicine. "I made it an unrelieved mind trip," she says. "I told him that he was going to win, and wouldn't that be wonderful after so long a time waiting for it. Talking about the Oscar was another way of not letting him fade away. When he won, I flew into his arms. He held me tight and I saw the tears in his eyes, and they told me he was overwhelmed with a sense of profound Writer Thompson happiness. 'Hell...