Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Woolf was a bit put off by the prospect of bedtime congress, Leo Tolstoy was positively appalled. "Man can endure earthquake, epidemic, dreadful disease, every form of spiritual torment," he said. "But the most dreadful tragedy that can befall him is and will remain the tragedy of the bedroom." Tolstoy went so far as to write a book advocating celibacy, The Kreutzer Sonata, but his wife had what she angrily called "the real postscript." Not long after publication, she became pregnant...
Faced with an additional $8 billion of inflation-induced deficit for this fiscal year and the prospect that Ihe Social Security system may soon go broke, Reagan opted for action. His proposal to reduce Social Security payments produced shock waves-congressional phones and mailbags exploded with protests-but the President may have sown the seeds of future success. Indeed, the wise strategy may be to push even harder. "The iron is never going to be hotter," says one of Reagan's top aides. Their polls show him with a 76% approval rating...
...sent thousands of his jubilant supporters into the streets of Paris, singing, dancing and honking car horns to celebrate what some pundits were calling the second French Revolution. But on the Paris stock market, prices plunged and the franc hit a twelve-year low as investors paled at the prospect of Mitterrand's sweeping nationalization and economic reform plans. The major political parties began gearing up for a decisive parliamentary election that could lead to either a leftist majority or a paralyzing constitutional deadlock. Giscard and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, the Gaullist leader, clashed violently, endangering the survival...
...prospect of such sweeping measures sent shock waves through the French financial and business community. On the morning after Mitterrand's election, for the first time in its history, Paris' venerable stock exchange, the Bourse, had to postpone its opening because there were no buyers to establish prices. When the doors did open at 1 p.m., there was an avalanche of sell orders from anxious investors. Stock prices fell by 9% within minutes and trading had to be suspended. Hardest hit were stocks of the industries that Mitterrand proposes to nationalize...
Schmidt bravely concurred, noting that a C.D.U.-F.D.P. coalition already runs the state government of the Saarland. But the prospect of shifting alliances in Berlin inevitably touched off talk of similar moves in Bonn, where F.D.P. right-wingers are increasingly impatient with the leftists in Schmidt's unruly party. That, in turn, raised a larger question in Europe's changing political climate: Giscard is gone; is Schmidt in trouble...