Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even some supporters of a hike acknowledge that an increased minimum wage would still be disdained by large numbers of jobless young people, who are not inspired by the prospect of flipping hamburgers at a fast-food franchise. "These are dead-end jobs," says Lorna Barnes, an account executive at Chicago's Minority Economic Resources Corporation, which trains and places young people in jobs. Barnes contends that an aggressive job- education and retraining program would have far greater impact than a minimum- wage increase. That seems to be one idea on which left and right can agree: the Reagan Administration...
...three years Roth spent writing The Counterlife have left him satisfied ("I gave it my all") and resigned to the prospect of being misunderstood once again. He expresses hope that Nathan's putative death in the novel will discourage people from reading his fiction as autobiography, but he is not optimistic. "I write about what could have happened," he says, "not what did happen. Why that's so hard to grasp I don't understand. I have once in a while started off just setting down some incident I'd actually gone through and I can hardly get past...
...complications of The Counterlife ripple out from a central conceit. A man with a heart condition finds that the medication he must take renders him impotent. Hence Henry Zuckerman, 39, faces the bleak prospect of life without any more after-work office trysts with his alluring assistant. Similarly, Henry's famous older brother Nathan, 45, cannot marry an Englishwoman named Maria and create both the child and the settled life that, after three failed marriages, he now desperately wants. The only solution in both cases is bypass surgery. The Zuckerman brothers face the same difficult choice, but for diametrically opposed...
...some people, the prospect of batch files and having to come up with a response to A is too great. Fortunately, a new program from Norton Software, called the Norton Commander solves the problems of not having anything to say when faced with a simple...
Kidding aside, the fine edge of courage is honed by energy, exhilaration, adventure and the promise of applause. When does a man approaching 76, with various parts of his body needing repair, begin to sag under the burden of his years, to retreat from the prospect of emotional battering...