Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health casts a long shadow over the nearly completed Strategic Arms Limitation treaty-and indeed over all of U.S.-Soviet relations. If Brezhnev is unable to see the marathon negotiations through to the end, a settlement and signing might be delayed for months-perhaps indefinitely. The very prospect of the struggle for succession may have been an element in the repeated delays over the Strategic Arms Limitation treaty...
Veteran winger Wayne Cashman, aching back and all, had put Boston up 3-2 at 16:30 of period two when he tipped home Brad Park's slapshot from the point for what turned out to be the winning tally, but the prospect of a seventh game seemed anything but certain until "Stan the Man"--"he's a scrapper," said Mike Milbury--Jonathan introduced samurai hockey to the sell-out crowd...
...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry...
There is also little prospect of America affecting any change in British policies towards Northern Ireland. The ignorant bumblings and clumsy advice offered by Tip O'Neill on his recent visit were completely counter-productive, and the Conservatives will be even less receptive than Labour was to suggestions that they coerce the majority in Ulster into either sharing power or joining a united Ireland. Mrs. Thatcher's resolve to give no quarter to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists will be stiffened by a personal note: one of her closest political friends and advisers, Airey Neave, was killed...
Brown, too, has been at the top of the heap after his 10-1 year last year. He is a legitimate pro prospect, with a fastball that sends the JUGS gun into the high 80s, a knack for changing speeds well, and a personality that just exudes baseball. You see Larry Brown on the ballfield just once and you almost have to think that he was born in a dugout...