Word: prospectively
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...another lobbyist they were trying to use for an entr?e to the Bush White House, where Ballabon had friends. Reed forwarded Abramoff an unctuous message Ballabon had sent him and Reed added the comment, "It's now becoming physically painful," an apparent reference to Reed's distaste at the prospect of sidling up to Ballabon. Abramoff responded with an allusion to the Scottish golf trip he and Reed were to make the following month: "Hey, let's bring Jeff to Scotland and hit balls into him!" Reed, who had traveled to Scotland with Abramoff the year before, wrote back...
...costly, and freight lines are already booked solid. It would take as many as 60 trucks to transport the 55,000 bu. of corn that would fit on a barge, says David Feider, a spokesman for the grain exporter Cargill. "We're not diverting cargo," he says. The prospect of corn being dumped on the domestic market has already depressed spot prices. But don't expect a break in the price of cornflakes. The corn in a 1-lb. box costs cereal makers just 3¢, a tiny part of the total cost, according to Robert Wiser, an agricultural economist...
...paying more for energy. But the U.S. economy can withstand some big blows. The nation was emerging from recession on 9/11, and that event did not ruin the recovery (thanks to billions in tax breaks). A slowdown may give the Fed reason to suspend its interest-rate hikes, a prospect that has already sparked a bond-market rally. While Katrina's impact on the Gulf economy is devastating in the near term, an infusion of federal disaster-relief dollars should stimulate industries from homebuilding to appliances and help lift the economy...
...rely for the defense of their country on a simple perception: that an opponent doesn't dare make an aggressive move for fear of devastating consequences. Peaceful negotiations through sustained diplomacy seem to be the only viable way out of this threatening situation. Then again, isn't the unwelcome prospect of mutually assured destruction a universally acclaimed deterrent against the unbearable perils of terrorism's ultimate expression? Pierre Galipeau St.-Léonard, Canada The idea that nuclear weapons are safe only in the hands of Americans and their European cousins and a danger to the rest of the world...
...Some national security officials were pleased with the prospect that Hayden would be moved to CIA -and away from aggressive efforts to manage the whole intelligence community. "I'm very happy to have Hayden go to the CIA. I want him out of my hair," says one senior official outside...