Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with that prospect, the Soviets would have no incentive to reduce their offensive forces. Quite the contrary, they would have every reason to increase their arsenal of nuclear spears. In order to maintain their own concept of deterrence, they must be confident of their ability to penetrate and overwhelm whatever shield the U.S. eventually erects...
Stuck with the prospect of being part of the system, they are vainly attempting to disassociate themselves from it. They are just plain unhappy--about apartheid, about gym maintenance and about their inevitable job on Wall Street. What's important to notice is the apparent equivalence all these complaints share. In a cynical world, all evils are equally important because everything is equally irrelevant. It's all the same, and they want us to know...
SUPPOSE THE U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the historic 1972 decision legalizing abortion in all states--an increasingly likely prospect given the new make-up of the Court. Under the proposed amendment the Massachusetts legislature would have the power to make abortion illegal in this state without a statewide referendum at that time...
...Cynics, however, say that Penn--upset winners over Navy this weekend--is far too strong an opponent for the Crimson to handle. The Cynics chuckle sadistically when they think about the prospect of the Harvard-Penn matchup in Philadelphia next month...
...Harvard men's water polo team had played poorly in Saturday losses to Iona and Bucknell at the Brown Invitational--and was faced with the daunting prospect of catching an 8 a.m. bus to Providence for the match against the nationally 11th ranked Cadets...