Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces are beginning to fall together. We do have some suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery of the money was cold comfort to officers of the bank. Its theft insurance policy covers losses only above $1 million...
...city of Brest Litovsk. At a meeting of the central committee of his Herut Party, Begin looked ahead to the prospect of missions of his own: "In these matters there is reciprocity. One day, God willing, I shall visit Cairo, and I shall also go to see the Pyramids." And he added, with a smile: "After all, we helped to build them...
Sadat also had to contend with unexpected opposition inside his own government. Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who had thought that Sadat's visit to Israel was a long-range proposal rather than an immediate prospect, resigned when the trip was suddenly scheduled. "I am firmly against it," Fahmy told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Cairo. Sadat immediately offered Fahmy's job to Egypt's second-ranking diplomat, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Riad. But he resigned also, in what began to resemble an Egyptian Saturday Night Massacre. Sadat then named Butros Ghali, a member of Egypt's Coptic...
...explanation for this neglect is largely economic. Although pharmaceutical houses have produced an astonishingly rich arsenal of drugs-sometimes with little prospect of making money-they have not found it feasible to develop medicines for many diseases that might be prevented or cured, particularly those that strike the impoverished...
...front runners. "We only accept people we like," says the old Adlai fan, who still prefers liberal Democrats but occasionally works for "progressive" Republicans. Four years ago, Hugh Carey, then a Brooklyn Congressman, seemed a poor bet-he was virtually unknown. Last year Koch looked like an even worse prospect. But in each case Garth's analysis of polls showed that more prominent rivals had relatively little support. "That's a situation with a vacuum," says Garth. "You can move in with the right candidate...