Word: prospectively
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...workers to pay taxes and support the pensions of baby boomers ensconced on the Côte d'Azur, nursing their arthritic knees and memories of vacations on the since flooded Maldives. Meanwhile, Germany, Spain and Italy, along with most of Central and Eastern Europe, are nervously eyeing the prospect of national extinction...
...assault, Truman sent in U.S. troops, which quickly turned the tide. Giddy with success, he announced that the U.S. would not simply push the communists back to the border; it would liberate the North as well. That seemed like a good idea until China, terrified by the prospect of American soldiers on its border, joined the war, forcing the U.S. into a headlong retreat...
...lately entered the Administration's rhetorical gunsights: Iran. Since the start of the year, the U.S. has ramped up its bellicosity toward Iran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It has moved a second aircraft-carrier group to the Persian Gulf and conducted raids against Iranian targets in Iraq. But the prospect of a military confrontation causes shudders among many U.S. officials, given Tehran's capacity to retaliate against U.S. troops in Iraq and strike civilian targets around the world. Rice says that "the President absolutely believes this can be done through diplomacy"--which is a big reason that Iran has become...
That will be a tricky prospect, considering the lse has seen off a succession of foreign takeover attempts in the past few years. Under ceo Clara Furse - the bourse's first female boss in its 200-year history - the lse has knocked back offers from rival European operators like Deutsche Börse and Australian investment bank Macquarie. By "flushing out suitors and garnering shareholder support," says Richard Hunter, London-based head of U.K. equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, Furse and the management "have played the bid game very well indeed." But the laws of capitalism dictate that...
...Princeton in the league’s best-of-three series that determined which squad received the NCAA berth. Harvard returns 22 letterwinners from last season, including junior Steffan Wilson, whom Baseball America named as the Ancient Eight’s preseason player of the year and top professional prospect. Wilson, who batted .331 with 17 doubles, six home runs, and 43 RBI’s in 2006, has received both honors the last two seasons. Juniors Shawn Haviland and Matt Vance were chosen as members of the preseason all-conference team. Haviland was last season?...