Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came to a vote on Capitol Hill. The very next day, they did just that, proposing an amendment on a bill to raise the federal debt limit. The Democrats had the strength to beat back the tax cutters on a straight party-line vote, 58 to 38, but the prospect of more such votes was an embarrassment. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd denounced the Republican maneuvering as a "Tinkertoy economic solution" and "a con game with the American people." To head off more such votes, he called on the Senate Finance Committee to draw up its own tax-cutting measure...
...decision, climaxing an eight-year legal battle, should give a boost to an emerging industry, genetic engineering, which seeks to create new life forms. This promising field offers the prospect of advances in everything from medicine and food production to alternate energy forms. The court's ruling also revived fears - vastly exaggerated in the opinion of most responsible scientists - about the dangers of tampering with life...
...least with an assurance of legal recourse if they are. But others fear that just the opposite will happen: that scientists will be cautious about sharing information, long an essential part of the scientific process. Warns M.I.T.'s Jonathan A. King, a molecular biologist: "Now you have the prospect of keeping a strain [of bacteria] out of circulation until you have the patents." Wolfgang Joklik, chairman of Duke University's department of microbiology and immunology, wants to see scientists rewarded for what they do. But he adds with concern, "I just don't want to see organisms...
After seeing his standard of living rise steadily since World War II and having been promised more to come, the average Soviet citizen now faces the prospect of declining prosperity. Says Abram Bergson, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "Over the coming decade, the Soviets will be lucky if the increase in consumer goods is half what it has been lately." The central planning that helped achieve rapid industrialization has become the roadblock to further economic development...
...suggested he vacate the flat. He flew out of the window. His flight was heavy, sometimes he would fall, like a plane in air pockets, but then he would suddenly soar and disappear. Of course I realize I'll have to pay for my boldness, but the prospect of ending up in his stomach, in that steel bag, I tell you straight, I don't relish in the least...