Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are no lengthy courtships between Cain's characters, no flowers and chocolate, no meeting her parents and asking for her father's blessing. The passions are sudden and spontaneous and violent. Yet they do not seem phony or contrived. For all these homeless unhappy characters, the prospect of being loved stirs and then awakens their passions. In "The Girl in the Storm," for example, a railroad hobo finds himself trapped inside an old store during a flood with a young girl. After protecting her from the water and keeping her warm, he for the first time feels as though...
Such stubborn determination leaves Moscow faced with the prospect of an open-ended drain on its resources and ongoing embarrassment in its foreign policy. It also presents the U.S. with a dilemma. Should the U.S., in exchange for a Soviet pullout, press for a diplomatic settlement that might involve the formal recognition of Karmal's puppet regime and an end to outside support for the mujahedin? Or should Washington keep the covert military heat on and insist on unconditional withdrawal...
...every direction. Her bold experiment to turn Britain's sluggish economy around by applying relentlessly monetarist policies has produced staggering 12% unemployment and a host of other alarming statistics. Her approval rating has dropped to 28%, a near-record low for any British Prime Minister. Worried over the prospect of running for re-election on the government's dismal record, a number of Tory backbenchers and some senior party members are openly revolting against her policies and questioning her leadership. In a broadside from the Establishment, the Times of London noted that inflation, unemployment, industrial production, interest rates...
Trying to attract middle-class voters, Papandreou has toned down some of his earlier stands, but they are still anti-NATO and anti-American. Papandreou once favored Greek withdrawal from NATO; now he says the step should not be taken until Greece can defend itself, a long-term prospect, at best. He sees Turkey, his country's traditional rival, as the main threat, not the Soviet Union. His election would probably widen the split between Greece and Turkey, and thus further weaken NATO'S southern flank. Papandreou used to demand that the U.S. abandon its four bases...
...company's once-sickly retailing operation has rebounded and shaken off two years of declining profits. Retail sales in the five weeks ending Oct. 3 were up 9.3% over last year. But with little prospect for dramatic new growth in merchandising, Telling decided it was time to move decisively into financial services...