Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of Illinois will now give Lowe and his family new identities and move them to another undisclosed location. As he prepared to go into hiding permanently, Lowe talked last week to TIME Correspondent Madeline Nash. He admitted that he was nervous about the prospect of losing his bodyguards. Did he think he had done the wrong thing in testifying? "No," Lowe shrugged. "If there would be a new trial, I would testify again. I stood up for what I believe...
More is at stake than just Korea, however, as important as it is to Asian stability. The prospect of a U.S. withdrawal alarms Japan, which fears instability in the Korean peninsula, the traditional invasion route to the Japanese home islands. China fears that too precipitate a U.S. retreat from Asia would encourage aggressive Russian moves. The general's warning can only add to these apprehensions...
Pondering a host of seemingly unpromising policy alternatives last week, some U.S. diplomats raised the prospect of an ominous Middle East chain of events: 1) a Begin government would announce the annexation to Israel of occupied territory, thereby triggering an Arab mobilization, or 2) the Arabs would desperately mount a pre-emptive strike to prevent Begin from carrying out annexation...
...Electrical Workers calculated that 70,000 jobs already had been lost to the Japanese imports. Last March the International Trade Commission, a six-member watchdog group appointed by the President, recommended an increase in the tariffs on Japanese sets from 5% to 25%, effective in August. Displeased by that prospect, Carter summoned his trade negotiator, Millionaire Dallas Lawyer Robert Strauss, the recently retired Democratic Party chairman. "Bob," asked the President, "why don't you see what you can work...
...costs still more: companies demand a percentage of the profits, sometimes as much as 80 or 95 per cent on films as popular as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When placed on top of a $200-$300 flat rate, earning any kind of profit becomes a rather dubious prospect...