Word: prospects
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Actually, the congress accomplished one thing relevant to Tito's serene prospect. It rubber-stamped a revamping of the Communist league's leadership, reducing the party's presidium from 48 to 24 members and confirming Slovene Stane Dolanc, 52, as its secretary. Thus Dolanc was reappointed as a member of Tito's inner circle of advisers, and in the long term, he could be a possible successor. In the short term, the front runner for Tito's title as President is Edvard Kardelj, 68, preeminent among eight members of Yugoslavia's collective state presidency...
Each finalist faced its own certain victory (no other prospect being thinkable) in its own way. Holland, where the Argentine military regime is much despised for its violations of human rights, declined to send any officials to watch the final, though the Dutch ambassador, who had been criticized severely in his parliament for speaking up mildly for the Argentines, was to be a spectator. The Argentines, a wounded nation recovering from an undeclared civil war of hideous brutality between extreme left and extreme right, needed a celebration, and had turned the World Cup into one with a joyousness that went...
Nearly every major capital in the Western world supports half a dozen or so daily newspapers. Every capital, that is, except Washington, D.C., which boasts only two dailies and has long faced the prospect of becoming a one-newspaper town. For more than 20 years, as the jaunty, aggressive, morning Washington Post (circ. 561,640) has enlarged its share of readership and advertising, the evening Star has waned. The struggling 126-year-old Star was assured survival last March when Time Inc. bought the paper for $28 million, giving it a strong financial base. Since then Star watchers have waited...
...surprising renewal of shock and agony at every turn." After a six-month search, he settled for a two-bedroom "cottage" in West Hollywood. The price: $120,000. No sooner had he moved in and started feeding the gaping koi in his fish basin than he faced the prospect of having his $3,700 property tax raised to well over...
Nothing deterred him. Three times Jarvis tried and failed to get property taxes rolled back. Suddenly, in the past year, soaring property taxes, ever-rising state and federal taxes and the prospect of double-digit inflation combined to wed Jarvis' obsession to the public's anger. The old gadfly has become a kind of California folk hero, an unlikely St. George to voters who hope that he can deliver them from the tax dragon...