Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, "I tell them to take a picnic." Peggy Leary, who runs a catering business called Ruffles & Flourishes in Boston's blue-collar Charlestown area, reports that the traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion. An introvert who doesn't know anybody can feel comfortably occupied watching a chef. Each food station around the reception room creates an environment...
Inevitably, the credit Bradley is reaping from this political near miracle makes him a presidential prospect. To the Democrats, desperate for new faces, the emergence of a 42-year-old Rhodes scholar and sports idol who can claim to be the father of tax reform may be an act of political deliverance. Bradley seems in no great hurry to jump into the presidential race, but he is nonetheless quietly preparing himself for this last and greatest competition --if not in 1988, then in 1992. "Bill has always had a sense of where he wants to go," says his old Princeton...
...others, do not know what they are doing, a fact that makes anti-James feeling somewhat understandable. Baseball research is in its infancy, and much of it is slapdash. But the numbers suggest that the sabermetricians are on the right track and that baseball faces the galling prospect of falling in line with provincial researchers like Bill James. Who knows? James may yet get to throw out the first ball at a world series...
...delve beyond the testimony. No journalist would willingly jeopardize the nation's security, but, the CIA argues, news organizations may not always be the best judge of that. Journalists reply that the CIA has a long history of minimizing its embarrassments and concealing its failures. Continued contention is the prospect...
Justice Department officials privately doubt that a news organization can be successfully prosecuted under Section 798. But the mere prospect of Government action could serve the same purpose. "We don't want to police the press," says a CIA spokesman. "We want the press to police itself." The dilemma is that unless a news organization is willing to risk criminal prosecution, it must rely on the CIA to tell it whether a story poses a threat to national security. As the sometime subject of such stories, the CIA may not always be the most objective judge...