Word: prospects
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That discouraging prospect was all the more frustrating to the U.S. since most of the outstanding issues had been settled. Indeed, according to an Israeli estimate, the draft peace treaty was "75% to 80%" complete. The two sides had reached agreement on such crucial issues as the end of the 30-year state of war and the establishment of relations, the exchange of ambassadors, the location of boundaries, the placement of troops and the role of United Nations forces, and Israeli navigation rights in the Gulf of Suez. Egypt and Israel had also reached a meeting of minds...
...country's people favor restrictions on the growth of private consumption over the next two or three years, labor is already bucking the wage guidelines. The liquor deliverers, who are demanding a 15.6% pay raise, have begun a strike that presents aquavit-loving Norwegians with the sobering prospect that their country may have its first dry Christmas since prohibition ended in 1927. Whether or not that happens, Norwegians caught in the freeze can take at least some solace from the fact that King Olav V's annual stipend of $740,000 is frozen for the next 14 months as well...
Even before last week's measures. Carter's political advisers were worried lest the new economic line alienate supporters on the President's left. Consumerist leaders, for example, are most unhappy about the prospect that regulation might be relaxed. The anti-inflation, save-the-dollar effort might well stir discontent among low-income voters, who may see it as pro-business (though a recession would hurt business sales and profits). Yet Vice President Walter Mondale reported to a final meeting Tuesday night that he had found deep and growing concern around the country about the dollar's plight, so that...
That grisly prospect unleashed a torrent of anti-American rhetoric in Mexico. Said Congressman Salvador Reyes Nevares: "Our government cannot remain impassive in the face of this inhuman measure, which tramples on our dignity." President José López Portillo called the fence-building "a discourteous, inconsiderate act." Editorial Writer Yolanda Sierra in Mexico City's daily Ovaciones dubbed the fence "a tortilla curtain...
...Japanese must either grant loans or buy Chinese oil. Both solutions present pitfalls for Japan. Peking has hinted it wants the type of cheap loans, repayable over 30 to 40 years at 2% to 4% interest, that Japan makes to developing countries as a form of foreign aid. The prospect of giving China such easy terms has alarmed many government officials. "It's foreign aid, pure and simple," said one bureaucrat, "and that's no way to finance a huge trade program with China...