Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quell the blaze. While the construction of firebreaks covering more than 600 miles helped, a 14-mile chain of fires farther west continued to burn out of control. Chinese officials warned that strong winds could fan the embers in smoldering areas. Conceded a gloomy forest ministry report: "The prospect is by no means optimistic...
...four- page press release was needed last week to scuttle the Justice Department's inquiry into charges that General Dynamics had falsified information in the 1970s about delivery dates and multimillion-dollar cost overruns on Trident and Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines. Citing the "absence of any reasonable prospect of a successful prosecution," the Justice Department dropped its investigation into the actions of employees of the firm, including then Chairman David Lewis, 69. Said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Victoria Toensing: "The evidence was analyzed by nine career prosecutors, all of whom concluded that prosecution should not be initiated...
...reminder that the speeches in the House of Assembly are not some dry debating match but deal with deeply emotional issues that can and do cost lives. The irony of the Conservative challenge is that even though the reform process has shuddered to a halt and there is no prospect of negotiations with black leaders, Botha's image might be boosted by the astonishing confrontation in Parliament, where the Nationalist government is being denounced as dangerously liberal...
...armed white garimpeiros (prospectors) appeared. To garimpeiros, "Indians are wild animals -- brutes," says one former prospector. A garimpeiro, he adds, "is not afraid to kill or be killed. He earns easy, spends easy." These prospectors have recently been supplanted by two powerful mining companies that have government concessions to prospect on Indian land. Also on hand are an unknown number of soldiers, who are building a $109 million network of outposts to prevent gold smuggling and to keep Colombian rebels and cocaine couriers from violating the Brazilian border...
...prospect is for more political and racial polarization in South Africa. Botha's Nationalists, fearful that their greatest threat is from voters who think their modest reforms are going too far, are less likely than ever to make any serious changes in the apartheid system. The country's black majority, on the other hand, now has little hope of achieving race reforms through the national government. The sad outcome for South Africa will be still more violence and still more repression...