Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space-shuttle program is fascinating, but it also calls to mind the adage: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king. Little wonder that the Soviet Union should be so eager to get its own project off the ground. For the rest of us, the prospect of two purblind princelings contending high above for the throne of the kingdom is terrifying...
...many Israelis, the new elections could not come early enough. They are deeply worried about the prospect of the country being in the hands of a rudderless government. Said Meron Medzini, a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "We have here a terrible crisis of confidence. There are some people who are worried about the future of democracy." Said Knesset Member Uri Avneri, a longtime critic of the Israeli political Establishment: "The government is breaking apart. It's like metal fatigue...
...quarter of a million people who left Viet Nam by boat - most of them children - are be lieved to have perished at sea because passing ships refused to help them, or Asian governments denied them haven. For 384,000 surviving boat people, there seemed to be no better prospect than interminable months in fetid "holding centers" in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Even today, the bobbing skiffs that still flee Viet Nam are prey to ruthless Thai pirates who rape the women and plunder the refugees' belongings - in one documented case, even the gold fillings from their teeth...
...contrast, the State Department roster bears a distinctly Nixon-Ford tinge--"moderate" in the Reagan framework--disappointing some conservatives. Pipes had been considered as special adviser to the secretary of state for Soviet affairs, but found the prospect of "giving advice until blue in the face" without line responsibility--the fate of the job's last occupant, Marshall D. Shulman--unappealing...
...winter-wheat crop this spring is as poor as expected, Soviet economic planners may face the uncomfortable choice of increasing costly grain imports from Canada, Argentina and Australia or trimming back further on cattle herds and poultry flocks. That could mean years of less meat for Soviet consumers, a prospect that should cause some concern for Kremlin leaders. While Soviet citizens are hardly as restless as the Poles, it was last summer's meat shortages and price hikes that touched off the worker demonstrations in the shipyard of Gdansk...