Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with the prospect of long lines at registration caused by a check of each card against the computer print out, Gibson yesterday added plans to allow students to have their cards validated throughout this week at Holyoke Center...
...That prospect is certainly making his rivals squirm. Some analysts expect Wallace could win as much as 25% of the Massachusetts vote (assuring him a quarter of the state's 104 delegates to the National Convention). As Wallace put it last week to TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell, "A lot of chickens I talked about for years have come to roost in Boston. They're roostin' all over in Detroit and San Diego and even some in Boston...
...known as "block grants"-and hand them over to the states to be administered as the Governors see fit. Neither is Congress likely to increase Social Security taxes by as much as Ford proposes, give the Pentagon all that Ford is asking, or raise fees for Medicare patients. The prospect is for a series of fights between Congress and the President, with election-year realities forcing Ford to back off a bit as the months go by. Indeed, some Democrats on the Hill estimate that the final budget might go as high as $420 billion, which is about where...
From his sanctuary in Zaïre's capital of Kinshasa, F.N.L.A. Leader Roberto made occasional forays into his shrinking beachhead in Angola. His top lieutenants, however, were already resigned to the prospect of reverting to guerrilla warfare-the minings, ambushes and hit-and-run raids that they used to practice (without much success) against the Portuguese...
...Angolan intervention was expected. Some South African government leaders favor a unilateral pullback. They worry that their involvement in an uphill struggle will destroy the fragile détente the country has achieved with some black African states and severely drain the economy. Others argue that the prospect of an outright M.P.L.A. victory in Angola, and the presence of militantly anti-South African Cubans in the country, requires an uncompromising stand. Though Pretoria has announced the biggest reserve call-up since World War II, State President Nicolaas Didderichs told Parliament at week's end that armed force can bring...