Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ratings dipped after opening night, and on Tuesday NBC's David Brinkley opened his network's show by greeting viewers with, "Welcome back." But if enough curious Walters watchers stick around to lift ABC's evening news Niel sen rating by a single point-a reasonable prospect-the network can hike its rates for commercial spots on the show by some $2,000 a minute, or $2 million a year-which would yield ABC a nice 100% profit on its Walters investment...
...classic between the Reds and the Red Sox still fresh, baseball had its strangest and most successful season ever. The sport's legal underpinnings were cut away in the courts before spring training began. Opening day was in doubt for a while as owners-fearful at the prospect of free agents-locked the players out of training camps. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn finally ordered the camps opened while the players' union and management struggled toward a compromise. Oakland A's Owner Fearsome Charlie Finley decided the price of peace was too high and peddled five of his biggest...
...phenoms failed us, I would scurry to the back pages of The Sporting News and read about how the Phillies' farm clubs were doing in Eugene and Reading. There was plenty of scuttlebutt before games: "How about that Luzinski tearing up the Double A? Schmidt looks like a good prospect, hitting .300 for Pulaski. Maybe they'll make the difference next year...
...certain amount of fissionable uranium or plutonium, almost any competent physicist can build an atom bomb nowadays. This unfortunate fact of technological life has stirred dire warnings that sophisticated terrorist groups might build such bombs and use them to blackmail the world -a kind of ultimate crime. While the prospect causes a great deal of official worry, it also provides almost any competent thriller writer with a readymade plot that has everything: timeliness, tremendous stakes and, above all, the appalling specter of a mushroom cloud billowing over a peaceful land...
...sobering list for Carter." The book warns that the questioners will surely challenge Carter in two areas: issues that he has seemed to straddle (like suggesting a strong military posture with a reduced defense budget), and social issues (like amnesty, abortion and busing). The most feared prospect in the book: that a questioner will string together half a dozen positions on which Carter has been accused of ambivalence and leave him in the impossible position of having to clarify his stands in the brief time allowed...