Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of bringing the Soviets back into the Middle East picture was just one of the problems that the Saudi campaign, for all of its hopeful aspects, posed to U.S. policymakers. If the Fahd plan is approved at the Fez summit, Washington would come under increasing pressure from its own Western allies to deal with the P.L.O. in spite of Israeli protests. Said one senior State Department official: "It will mean a new ball game in the Middle East. People will say, 'The P.L.O. has finally done what the Americans have wanted it to do. It has accepted Israel...
...considerable doubts about the utility of these Veteran's Day activities. I am glad people are concerned, but I am worried because these discussions may make matters worse. Why? Because they encourage rhetoric and public posturing more than sober analysis. And if any subject needs sobriety, it is the prospect of nuclear...
Other thinkers have listed football--and the Yale game--with what William James called the "moral equivalents of war," the safe ways of working off man's aggressive tendencies. Perhaps football is a moral equivalent which will someday save us all, but even this happy prospect cannot account for the standees on the Stadium roof and the 10,000 extra olives at the Ritz...
...whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near him as a boy--who doesn't want to go back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself, an elongated, hick-Frankenstein monster scared shitless at the prospect of being torn to shreds. In between the producer virtually masturbates to the commercials, announcements and alarums on his video monitor...
Almost as worrisome as the possibility of the effective elimination of shopping period is the prospect that pre-registration could pave the way for more limited course enrollments. Other colleges which require early registration often put ceilings on course sizes to reward early registrants. We counsel Harvard to reject this policy. The University should also urge professors with unexpectedly large classes to announce their plans for dealing with overflows at their first lecture, if not earlier. Too often, faculty members suddenly announce the exclusion of various groups--like non-concentrators, or members of a given class--well into a course...