Word: prospectively
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What may happen when Warren must relinquish the honor is already a vexing question. The prospect of regular spats over who will be the next laureate does not seem terribly poetic. Fairly soon the U.S. will have accumulated more laureates than the 18 that England has amassed in almost 300 years. In a calendar sent to friends and constituents, Matsunaga has written, "If the lessons of human experience were all written in verse, we might better learn and remember them." One metrical piece of advice: "Abandon what's foreign/ After Penn Warren...
...boarding a flight out of the country. Meanwhile, calls for the resignation of two members of the ruling council closely associated with Baby Doc grew more insistent. Lieut. General Henri Namphy, Haiti's acting head of government, repeated earlier vows to hold free elections, but set no timetable. That prospect helped prompt Washington to restore $26 million in badly needed...
...those megadeals would shake up the industry. The already fierce competition in the skies is sure to become even more cutthroat. Many airlines may find it increasingly hard to turn a profit, and union members will face new threats to their high salaries. But air travelers, faced with the prospect of more and bigger fare bargains, stand to come out ahead...
...century. The first stage called for the Soviet Union and the U.S. to remove their intermediate-range missiles from Europe within five to eight years on the condition that Britain and France did not modernize their nuclear forces. The Soviet proposals held out the prospect of eliminating all nuclear weapons by the year 2000, provided all other countries with nuclear weapons dismantled their arsenals as well...
...prospect of increased profits from his London papers comes at a critical time for Murdoch. Last year he doubled the size of his empire by buying seven Metromedia television stations ($2 billion), 20th Century-Fox ($575 million) and a stable of business magazines from Ziff-Davis ($350 million). To finance his purchases, Murdoch has borrowed about $480 million from banks and issued shares in Fox Television Stations, the first time stock in a Murdoch-controlled enterprise has been offered to the U.S. public. Despite Murdoch's heavy financial obligations, analysts who have followed his fortunes over the years trust...