Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn against whoever seized the lead. That theory may be compounded of wishful thinking and of a desire to rationalize the President's poor ratings, but nonetheless his advisers are urging him to lie low until the final two weeks and then throw everything into the battle. That prospect will surely be the severest test of his new determination to stick to the high road. -By Walter Isaacson Reported by Christopher Ogden with Carter and Douglas Brew with Reagan
Beckford was a known quantity from the very beginning. She arrived from Cambridge's Rindge and Latin High School heralded as the silver medal winner in the 1978 Junior olympics 1500 meters and as a 1980 Olympic prospect...
...prospect that faces us, if the administration succeeds in buying a vested financial interest in the work of some faculty, is an exceedingly unpleasant one. Having invested substantial sums in the work of Professor X in the hope of reaping great financial rewards, the administration will necessarily attempt to protect its investment by giving preference in space, career advancement, support of graduate students, and voice in further faculty appointments to its business partner. How will the University behave toward Professor Y who is working on the same research subject as X but who has her or his own commercial enterprise...
...response of the University administration to the objections that have already been raised is two-fold. First, we are assured that there will be safeguards to prevent abuses of the system. The prospect of the University treating with an even hand and without the slightest prejudice a professor in whom it has already invested $200,000 in a joint financial venture is ludicrous. It would be amusing to witness the scene when such a professor is informed that, although his or her research is undoubtedly of great commercial value, it is no larger of much intellectual interest...
...concept of the bantustans does not perturb de Villiers. She sees democracy as a distant prospect in South Africa's future, explaining that it is possible only within a "confederal framework" comgining the banstustans--which will represent the Africans--with the all-white Republic. Saying it is on "the back burner," de Villiers similarly accepts another issue that provokes international objections: South Africa's continued occupation of Namibia and invasions of neighboring Angola...