Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share, or $2.9 million, as part of a move with two partners-Pattillo, a construction company president, and John Stembler, a Georgia movie-theater chain owner-to gain majority control of the bank. Lance's entrepreneurial acumen helped to almost double the bank's assets. However, the prospect of his large block of stock going on sale, plus his own departure and the bank's falling profits, have caused the stock's market value to drop to $14 a share. If at year's end Lance is forced to sell his stock at its present...
France's birth) and the third (on its destiny) are still to come. And Braudel, although robust, fears that he will never finish them. He is doubly sad at that prospect because people "flocked" to hear him lecture about France. "Instead of telling the story chronologically. I spoke about what is France, what is French society," reminisces Braudel. "What the French Revolution was; ah, what a subject that was. I could hear a butterfly fly when I spoke of that...
...Crocker," Kojak would say, musing over the body of a just dispatched crook, "...don't worry. It happens." For Long John and Bentley, facing generals and then orals, facing the real prospect of unemployment in June, that was transcendent wisdom. It happens. No use worrying. The simple serene Greek wisdom of Theo Kojak. There was another side also appealing, to Kojak: he was a tough, single-minded avenger of slights, insults and crimes. On the trail of a double-crossing jewel thief or of a big-time narcotics gang, he'd snap orders to Crocker and Stavros, ignore the warnings...
That attitude was underscored by a surprise decision on welfare reform. Although Carter had made a major campaign point of prompt reform, he dashed that prospect with the curious explanation that the welfare mess "is worse than we thought." Several options for revamping welfare had been prepared by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and debated in five White House meetings over the past month, but none of them was acceptable to Carter essentially because they all cost too much money...
...Government property. Nixon's legal challenge to this is now before the Supreme Court. Another suit, brought by Warner Communications Inc., owner of several record companies, claims that those tapes played in court are public property and should be made available for copying and commercial sale -raising the prospect of Nixon's Oval Office ramblings vying...