Word: prospectively
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Gazing at a sheet of league statistics is a pretty discouraging prospect these days if you're a Harvard fan. Team scoring offense: Harvard last at 50.5 points per league game...
...budget that reduces the federal deficit (now estimated at more than $220 billion for fiscal 1986, which began last October) to $144 billion for fiscal 1987, the infernal machinery of Gramm-Rudman will grind into gear, indiscriminately slashing some domestic programs by as much as 25%. It is a prospect that calls for compromise, yet neither side is rushing to make the first move. Instead, the Hill and the White House seem locked in a long and drawn-out game of chicken...
Finger pointing is a traditional congressional substitute for legislative action. Even so, few Congressmen truly relish the prospect of a search for scapegoats. Most lawmakers know that if there is no sensible budget passed by September, there will be plenty of blame to distribute when the public begins to feel the bite of the Gramm-Rudman cuts just as voting day rolls around...
Hiring contractors is sometimes the only way that outlying areas of small towns can obtain the services they need. Residents of districts just beyond the city limits of Elk Grove, Ill., used to rely upon the fire departments of neighboring Mount Prospect and Des Plaines. But in 1979 those two towns decided that their fire fighters could no longer cover that area, known as the Elk Grove Fire District. Rather than build a department from scratch, district officials decided to hire a company called American Emergency Services, based 15 miles away in Wheaton, to put out fires and provide paramedics...
Despite the time change, the B-29 professors decided to keep the original date, May 15. The course's new meeting time would have meant a final on May 23, the second-to-last day of exams. The prospect of such a late final, Deacon said, was very unpopular with students...