Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claims that the Soviets are willing to risk the consequences of a general nuclear war for the sake of political objectives. He stakes this claim on the fact that the Soviet Union suffered 20 million casualties during World War II, and thus "is not to be intimidated by the prospect of destruction." Pipe's contention is nowhere supported by evidence from the post-World War II Soviet Union, and in fact contradicts both common sense and the lessons of contemporary Soviet history. The Second World War left the Soviet Union with a profound sense of war's tragic consequences. Virtually...
...Reagan Administration clearly takes a gloomier view of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons capability than had Carter. Weinberger contended that the U.S. not only faces "the prospect of Soviet strategic superiority," but that it also is failing to produce any more land-based missiles or bombers. The U.S.S.R. meanwhile is "mass-producing both." To correct this, Weinberger advocated a new manned bomber designed to penetrate Soviet air defenses. He asked for $2.4 billion next year to develop such an aircraft, promising to decide by June 15 whether it would be an updated B-l design or a modification...
Whether blacks and whites actually have something to gain from social integration is yet to be proved. It is all very well to mumble about the glorious prospect of cultural exchange, but no one is sure that such exchanges breed enhancement. A loftier argument is that the nation, as a whole, would be improved. Perhaps. The old democratic vista of Whitman and Emerson, the transcendentalist democracy of one for one and one for all sounds quite fine; it always has. Since that goal has never been achieved, however, one may argue that it is simply another tenet of American hypocrisy...
...years has been quite favorable. My first contact was in the spring of my Freshman year when I was approached by a student salesman who wanted to discuss the program with me. Although the job sounded unconventional (door-to-door, commission-only book selling for the entire summer) the prospect of earning $2500-$3000 (average for first year salesman) was very attractive. Since I already had summer plans, however, I decided to wait until the next summer to sell...
...newspapers left her alone from early December until New Year's, but then the prospect of snaring Charles' beloved on a visit to Sandringham proved entirely too tempting. The sight of newsmen trampling in the woods of what has always been an off-limits winter retreat enraged the usually imperturbable Queen. "I wish you would go away," she snapped at photographers. That extraordinary crack in her regal facade gave credence to a rumor that surfaced in early February to the effect that Elizabeth had presented her son with an ultimatum to marry Diana by this summer...