Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast majority of Mexico's 63 million people earn less than $20 a month; devaluation of the peso has brought on 30 per cent inflation and "effectively halved the incomes of those fortunate enough to hold jobs," according to The El Paso Times. And there seems to be no prospect of a lessening of these pressure, as experts predict that Mexico's population will double within the next 20 years...
...Then, the poet Anna Akhmatova wrote: "The stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, be loved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." Life under Lenin's current successor has relaxed, grown somewhat less bleak, but there still seems no prospect that the mythology will be fulfilled: that, in the fullness of time, the state will begin to wither away and leave only the classless, abundant workers' paradise. On the contrary, the stolid bureaucracy expands, reduplicating itself and its controls. The Revolution's promises seem doomed always to recede...
...That prospect troubles many journalists. "The real danger is that the ruling will make some newspapers gun-shy about running certain stories," says Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Adds Investigative Reporter Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame: "There is just that much more risk that you'll end up in the slam...
...organizing a hospital it can easily arouse fears that these delicate relationships might be upset. Factory unions may stand in clear opposition to dark forces of exploitation and concentrated economic power, but few people like to think that hospitals, agents of aid and mercy, could be harsh employers. The prospect of a labor-management struggle when management is in the business of nursing sick people back to health is very disturbing to many. And the prospect of raising already incredible hospital bills still higher to cover increased labor costs is not an enchanting...
...attending the Helms case that clearly justified a fullfledged indictment and trial of the one-time Nixon enforcer. An unprecedented trial of Helms would have gone a long way towards completely fleshing out the fragmented story of CIA intervention in Chile during the administration of Salvador Allende. And the prospect of seeing Helms squirming under the rigors of cross-examination would have dramatized the issue of the executive branch's accountability to Congress as no criminal case could, short of bringing his former commander-in-chief from his San Clemente hermitage to the witness stand...