Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indications are that no long-term commitment of the land can be expected in the next five to ten years. The interim version of the planning office's "Long Range Plan for Harvard University and Radcliffe College in Cambridge and Allston" classifies the lot as being without any "foreseeable" prospect for future development. Supratik Bose, manager of long range planning, believes that Red Line subway extension work will force many cars down Mt. Auburn, making it an unsuitable site for a building...
...arms and shook the table. He never said Catholic or Protestant, Nationalist or Loyalist. He just said "one side" or "the other," and sometimes he leaned over close to say something he didn't want anybody else to hear. When we talked about civil war-- a very real prospect--Tommy forced a bitter half-smile, looked down at his stationary hands, the same two fingertips locked into one an other at the joints, and said he'd fight, if it came to that: "I've seen too many of me mates killed...
...issue hanging over Gorski's head right now is the prospect of a new police contract. Although the old contract has expired, spokesmen for the University and Patrolmen's Association head Lawrence Letteri say negotiations are completely stalemated. Letteri originally demanded the addition of 12 patrolmen to the 49-member force, citing a 17 per cent increase in crime at Harvard over the last two years. Gorski, who is not in the union, acknowledges a rise in property crimes, but points to a decrease in crimes against person and adamantly opposes any jump in the size of the force...
...observations are aimed at determining whether boys whose cells contain the extra shred of information--either an extra X or extra Y chromosome--develop abnormalities. It is the prospect that an extra Y component can be linked with criminal behavior--a notion ballyhooed in the mid-60s--that led the Justice Department and the Center for the Study of Crime and Delinquency of the National Institute of Mental Health to grant Walzer's investigation more than $465,000 over eight years...
...White House proposal for phased decontrol the President vowed to veto a congressional bill that provided for a six-month extension of present price controls, due to expire on Aug. 31. That action would have plunged the nation into abrupt decontrol, with definite inflationary dangers. Faced with that prospect, late last week both the Administration and its Democratic opponents abruptly pulled back from the brink...