Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lies in the simple knowledge--confirmed in a shocking way last week--that we are mortal, here for a time and then gone. We are rarely exposed to that truth, never on live national television, and when we are it is cruel and harsh because we mostly ignore the prospect of death and disaster so that we may go on in life. To dwell means to be paralyzed, numbed into self-consciousness and fear. Then why did some of us stare as we did at the 10th and 20th replay of the shuttle explosion? Because we couldn't pull...
...Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) will ask their colleagues to place a cap on their newfound wellspring of campaign funds. With Senate PAC contributions up 385 percent between 1976 and 1984 and with special interests using their influence to help bury this measure, PAC reform seems as likely a prospect this spring as real tax reform. But if this bill fails, the spectre of quid pro quo campaign contributions will further haunt American politics...
...decision permits companies like Sears to become interstate bankers despite a long-standing ban on the mixing of commercial and banking activities. That prospect dismays traditional bankers, who will appeal to Congress to protect their turf...
...prospect of being forced to close and relocate the two bases causes shudders in Washington. Because no single location offers the advantages of Clark, the air base's functions would probably have to be distributed among facilities in Japan and Guam. An alternative for the naval station could be found at Palau. But no other site offers a skilled labor force that could duplicate the huge volume and the low cost of maintenance performed at Subic. The two bases are, as a report by Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies puts it, "simply irreplaceable...
...canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead him on quests for ultimate answers, but to him Catholicism is all Wonder bread and moving-eye portraits of Jesus. The prospect of reincarnation is just as spooky. "Great," he sulks. "That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again...