Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Columbia catcher Ron Pettinger, a Professional prospect, got the other hit off Driscoll with one out in the final inning, as he rapped one of the few fastballs he saw all day into left for a single. But Driscoll remained the master, and Pettinger's teammates left him stranded...
...areas west of the Rockies, generating electricity from the earth's heat is not only a bright prospect; it is a fact. Dry steam from the Big Geysers area north of San Francisco is fed to a generating system and already supplies the equivalent of half the city's power. Far more commonplace wet-steam deposits have not yet become commercially productive in the U.S. They must be "flashed," or dried, before being used to spin generators...
...some of cumming's favorite poems in world literature. Cummings explained his nonlectures this way: "while a genuine lecturer must obey the the rules of mental decency, and clothe his personal idiosyncrasies in collectively acceptable generalities, an authentic ignoramus remains quite indecently free to speak as he feels. This prospect cheers me...since I can't tell you what I know (or rather what I don't know there's nothing to prevent me from trying to tell...
...effective is the final tax package? While arguing that it should have been even larger, Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, says that the bill is "an excellent beginning" and "substantially improves the prospect for a vigorous upturn in the second half of this year." He especially approves the bill's emphasis on helping less affluent taxpayers, considering it a historic shift by the Congress. Another board member, Otto Eckstein, also sees a healthy stimulus for 1975 but worries that there will be little continued impact in 1976. Most experts seemed to agree with...
...tossed out the charges anyway. Its reasoning: whether a bishop has a right to "usurp the proper functions" of other authorities is a doctrinal issue, not a legal one. A "doctrinal" trial can be ordered only by a two-thirds vote of the nation's bishops - an unlikely prospect indeed...