Word: prospects
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After seven years of productions, the Proposition Theatre faces the prospect of a long, hot summer with great trepidation. Unless the company can raise $3500 for the purchase of installation of an airconditioning system, the 150-seat theater in Inman Square will close its doors...
...rout of UNITA raised the ominous prospect of a border war between the combined M.P.L.A.-Cuban forces and the South Africans, who have now withdrawn to a 1,000-mile-long strip stretching up to 35 miles deep inside Angola. British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan warned late last week that the world faces the prospect of a "terrible war in southern Africa" unless urgent action is taken to prevent it. The most acute danger, he indicated, would be "hot pursuit" by the Cubans into South West Africa, following a successful firefight with the South African troops in the border area...
...proximity to the war-torn former Portuguese territory. In Africa, a number of moderate black leaders-as well as South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster-are clearly anguished. In general, the moderates are less concerned about direct Russian influence and bases in Angola than about the prospect that potential Soviet client states, beefed up with Russian military and economic aid, might be tempted to interfere in the domestic affairs of their neighbors-with or without Moscow's approval. Zambia is already concerned about subversion by the M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda. Kenya and Ethiopia are afraid that Somalia...
...problems, an anti-bribery law may be the best answer. Its mere presence on the books ought to constitute a powerful deterrent. The prospect of being branded a criminal and sent to jail would give pause to even the most sorely tempted executive. And if enough U.S. companies were impelled to say no to bribery demands, they might indeed find, after some initial loss of sales, that foreign countries had to do business with them anyway because of the U.S.'s long lead in technology...
...between studying, Philippe Bennett applied his emotions, skill and intelligence to fencing, and he has not done badly. He has not only become one of the top college fencers in the country and a captain of the Crimson fencing squad, but also an Olympic prospect...