Word: prospects
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Although Moscow has known since Richard Nixon's trip to Peking in 1972 that normal U.S.China ties were inevitable, the Soviets were jolted by the abrupt way Carter made the move and the sudden prospect of U.S. arms sales to Peking. Diplomatic surprise is one thing that the Kremlin's aging leadership abhors. Explains Gyula Jozsa, a Kremlinologist at Cologne's Institute of Eastern Studies: "The Soviets can see the logic of the need for the U.S. to recognize Peking. But what worries them is: How far and how quickly will subsequent relations develop between Washington and Peking?" An analyst...
...after almost a decade of trimming fat-mowing the lawn less often, deferring painting and plastering, scrapping expansion plans, reducing support staff-private colleges face the prospect of still deeper cuts. Notes Notre Dame's Hesburgh: "The situation is all the more dangerous because it is a slow-burning crisis that could gradually erode the financial health of many institutions before the country wakes up to the problem...
Though the prospect is for "moderation" in wages, that may translate into less than moderate increases of 12% in Britain, 8% in France and possibly 15% in Italy. In West Germany, 100,000 steelworkers who demand a 35-hour instead of a 40-hour week have been on strike or locked out, some for as long as six weeks. This is the worst German steel confrontation in 50 years, and by mid-January it will slow auto and electronics production. So, while Europe heads into the new year with more vigor than the U.S., the year of the scissors will...
...largest business, A T & T, to be built in midtown Manhattan. Given its cost of $110 million and the prominence of its site, the building could scarcely fail to provoke argument. But in addition Johnson and Burgee designed it as a summing-up of Post-Modernist building. This prospect fills some architects with skepticism. Says Charles Moore, "Philip's a genius and a gadfly, a delightful tourist. But people's expectations that he would sum up all the currents in architecture today with the A T & T building are simply wishful thinking." Thus the design, long before excavations have started...
...swimming, the muscular mermaids from the German Democratic Republic capped their dramatic rise to aquatic supremacy by taking 11 of 13 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics. This past summer, a band of upstart teenagers from the U.S., weaned on heavy weight-training programs and enticed by the prospect of increasingly available college scholarships, startled more than a few people at the World Championships in West Berlin by swiping nine gold medals while their supposedly awesome rivals managed only...