Word: prospects
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...prospect so alarmed President Jimmy Carter that he recalled U.S. Ambassador Richard N. Gardner from Rome for consultations. For weeks, Gardner had been sending increasingly urgent cables warning of the deteriorating Italian situation. In Washington, in talks with Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gardner emphasized his worry that the Administration's low-key approach to Eurocommunism-a stance he himself had urged-had left some Italian politicians with the mistaken impression that the U.S. did not care...
Israel is understandably uneasy about the prospect of having a radical Palestinian state next door, considering the violence for which some Palestinian groups have shown a penchant. Last week those fears were once again reinforced. In London, the P.L.O.'s representative. Said Hammami, was shot dead by an unknown assailant. Only four days earlier, a short distance away, two passengers in a Syrian embassy car had been killed by a bomb. Hammami was known as a moderate who in the past had been savagely criticized by radicals for refusing to demand the liquidation of Israel. Fortnight ago, there were...
...minute speech, she attacked the policies of Morarji Desai, who had succeeded her as Prime Minister after her humiliating defeat in last March's election. She also told her supporters that they should be "prepared to go to the jails and fill them in large numbers"-a prospect that was likely to become as unpopular with politicians as her mass sterilization program had proved to be with voters...
...hospitalized their daughter Mary, 6. The child had received in the mail a STEVE BIKOT shirt that had evidently been dipped in some kind of acid; when she tried the shirt on, her face and eyes were burned. Most of all, Woods had grown restless and despondent at the prospect of spending endless days "sitting around, moldering, playing golf and chess...
...difficult question: Which young men could play successfully under Landry's byzantine flex defense and multiple offense? At Cowboy headquarters, part of the basement and a full wall upstairs are lined with 1,500 big black ledgers that detail the size, speed, strength and character of every professional football prospect known to man, God and the truly all-seeing and all-knowing: the Cowboys' scouts. Players from the franchise's early days recall a computer expert hired in 1962 to begin research on a programming system sophisticated enough to factor in all of the countless variables. On team flights after...