Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of a Reagan Administration's supporting the blatantly repressive governments of Central America on the sole merit of being anti-Communist makes me very depressed. While I don't particularly like Communism, the opposite extreme can be as bad. My brother, who was working with the Indian people in Guatemala, was murdered last October after being kidnaped in broad daylight by persons who, there is good reason to believe, are members of the Guatemala security forces. I applaud Ambassador White's efforts in El Salvador...
...their wives) to create a fanatically dedicated--and extraordinarily ruthless--army to carry out a plan hatched in the minds of Pol Pot during his education at the Sorbonne. To further this goal, the Khmer Rouge recruited 12-year-olds for intensive training which emphasized forture, the "tantalizing prospect" of playing war, and "having the power of life and death over all categories of slaves" as a means of vanquishing their "seething, unquenchable hatred for the 'upper classes...
...wins and no losses. Pretty impressive achievement. How about including a triumph over a perennial nemesis in that total? What if we added the prospect of three more quick wins? Most coaches would be ecstatic over a record like that...
...main players. Usually a central figure is perceived as evolving only in retrospect, and that could well happen four years from now, when the country may acknowledge that Ronald Reagan was the only man who could possibly have pulled the U.S. out of its doldrums. For now, in prospect, that certainly cannot be said. Reagan is an experiment, a chance. For all the happy feelings his good nature generates, the cool fact of American life is that most of the country is still from Missouri, and much is yet to be proved...
...Nancy works tirelessly to make the world live up to her expectations. As First Lady, she will make the White House reflect what she likes to see. That means a comfortable formality for the private quarters. "I think I'm a frustrated interior decorator," she says, with the prospect of being frustrated no longer. Rooms upstairs will probably be done eclectically with English antiques, Chinese vases and old favorites from their home in Pacific Palisades. Freesias are her favorite flower-purple, yellow, red. In fact, red is Nancy's favorite color and will surely blaze...