Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done now. The cost of planning, currently the responsibility of the community--sometimes with the help of federal government planning grants--should be borne in part by the departing industry. Furthermore, the grant application process could be streamlined to make the possibility of federal assistance a less forbidding prospect...
...Carter and Congress are not swayed by arguments of policy and reason, it seems unlikely that the prospect of widespread unwillingness to cooperate with registration will affect their decision. But before they force the country into another era of division and confrontation like the opposition to the Vietnam War. Congress and the president should at least consider that consequence...
What follows is part fertility myth, part comedy of manners. The bride and groom are hardly thrilled at the prospect of this marriage made in heaven. They approach the pavilion magically erected for their nuptials with mutual dislike. She thinks he is a barbarian, he finds her too snobbish and ethereal. He has never faced women except as the conquering general, accepting the spoils of victory: "On their campaigns, when the army reached new territory, into his tent would be thrust some girl, or she was thrown at his feet...
...Such a prospect is totally abhorrent to Begin, and indeed to a majority of Israelis. Nonetheless, there is a growing sense within Israel that Begin's begrudging view of autonomy does less than justice to the Palestinians' reasonable demands. For this and other reasons, Begin's shaky coalition could collapse at any time, thereby forcing new elections. The certain winner perhaps even with a clear majority in the Knesset, according to recent polls would be the Labor Party, which has never been particularly enthusiastic about settlements for settlements' sake. The Labor solution...
Such was the prospect as the end of spring training approached with no new contract between the Major League Players Association and the 26 teams' owners. But then the players' representatives decided to throw the owners not a strike, but a knuckle ball. They voted to 1) skip the remaining exhibition games but 2) open the regular season on time this week and 3) take their walk on May 22, the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, if a new contract is not signed by then...