Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruin any immediate chances for a renewal of detente; it would probably bring on a new grain embargo at a time when the Soviets face a disastrous harvest; it would alienate Third World countries; it would almost certainly be resisted by Moscow's Polish "allies," an especially distasteful prospect when some 85,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan are already tied down trying to subdue another "fraternal" nation. Moreover, a military invasion by the Kremlin is not necessary. There is no present threat to the Soviet strategic position, and no one in the Solidarity leadership is seriously questioning Poland...
...rehearsal over the weekend, with a veteran State Department official who has watched Gromyko in action playing the Soviet and asking questions he is likely to raise. The Secretary has decided to be sober and businesslike in presenting U.S. complaints, on the logical ground that there is little prospect of cowing a wily old diplomatic pro who has dealt with seven of Haig's predecessors. (In 1943, when Haig was still a student at Notre Dame, Gromyko presented his credentials to F.D.R. as Soviet Ambassador to Washington...
...that it was a real shock to have to drive yourself around and pay for your meals," says Rosalie Cyrier, 20. Adds Tumino: "For the first few days, it was kind of weird being able to talk to anybody you wanted." Salesman Frooman, the one who lost the job prospect, went good-naturedly back to work. "It was a drag because it was so long," he says, "but the jury system is the best system there...
...given up a promising career as an architect to teach fifth-graders in the New York City public school system; he thinks of his students as "a kind of early warning system for what's next in the world." Meanwhile, their friend Nicole feels glum over the prospect of another abortion, her sixth. She would like to have the baby and marry Diego, her Cuban lover, but doing so would cause her father to revoke the TWA pass that she uses to jet wherever her spirit moves her. Kirk, Jeffrey's twin brother, is taking parachute lessons...
...prospect of being a journalist first excited Oney in the early 1970's, when he read the writings of men like Tom Wolfe. Wolfe argued that in contemporary journalism, one could write on current events with the novelist's attention to craft. The discovery that journalism need not be dry "was kind of a mind-blower for me," Oney recalls. Besides, "I didn't want to be an English teacher--which is about the only other option for an English major unless you work for Bell Telephone or something...