Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Hemingway had trouble with the prospect of publishing the fantasies he was entertaining. His hero, David Bourne, is a young writer whose wife cuts her hair as short as a man's and dyes it ash-white, and persuades him to exchange sex roles in a way whose mechanics are not explained. The man is to be the woman and the woman is to act the man. In bed, they do "devil things," also unexplained, and the wife brings a lesbian lover into their menage...
...October, a clean-sheet design (of solid boosters), which means that they are not constrained to existing hardware." Rebuilding the existing boosters, however, now seems the most likely solution, especially since it has the best chance of meeting NASA's current takeoff target of early 1988. This prospect, coupled with the go-ahead for a fourth shuttle, indicates that the wounded space agency is moving forward again...
Equally important, the Saudi strategy forced the other OPEC members to think seriously about quotas or face the prospect of almost bottomless oil prices. Before last week's agreement, some experts were predicting a price of $6 per bbl. by the end of the year. Says Sanford Margoshes, who follows the industry for Shearson Lehman Brothers: "Producers have suffered exquisite pain, and pain makes one wise." Arnold Safer, an energy consultant based in Bethesda, Md., believes "it was a do-or-die situation in Geneva...
...widely anticipated racial reforms. This year Botha was simply expected to hang tough, and so there was little hope that he would say anything encouraging about releasing Nelson Mandela or negotiating with black leaders. On the contrary, as his government moves toward stricter controls and security measures, the prospect is for less flexibility than there was before -- and there was never very much...
...same speech, Gorbachev dangled the prospect of another kind of troop reduction. To help create an "atmosphere of good neighborliness" with China, he said, the Soviets were considering a "substantial" withdrawal of troops from Mongolia and are willing to discuss joint force reductions along the Sino-Soviet frontier...