Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amendment?"Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex"?made many voters, especially women, nervous. The anti-ERA lobby, led by Phyllis Schlafly?a conspicuously liberated woman who at 51 is working for a law degree?conjured up the prospect of unisex public toilets, an end to alimony, women forced into duty as combat soldiers. In fact, the effects of the ERA are not known, and some constitutional lawyers argue that it would be better to rely on specific antidiscrimination laws rather than on an amendment that might have unpredictable social results...
...most controversial?and popular?First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, speaking out on a variety of once delicate topics. Abortion: "I feel it is the right of a human being to make her own decisions." Marijuana: "It's the type of thing that young people have to experience." The prospect of a premarital affair for her teen-age daughter: "I wouldn't be surprised . . . But I'd want to know pretty much about the young man." Her candor is deliberate. Says she: "You're very foolish if you try to beat around the bush?you just meet yourself coming around...
...year that lies ahead, the Democrats will be trying to pass legislation to help their candidates with specific groups, such as the farmers, while Ford will continue to try to cut spending and thus enhance his image as a fiscal conservative. The prospect is for a year filled with vetoes and hard fights to override them as the President and the legislators on the Hill keep a worried eye on election...
...Mexico City, the government of Luis Echeverría Alvarez has been troubled by the prospect of an economic boycott, principally involving the tourist industry, carried out by American Jewish organizations in the wake of Mexico's vote for the Zionism resolution. Faced with a big drop in the country's billion-dollar tourist business, President Echeverría two weeks ago entertained a group of visiting Jewish leaders at a kosher luncheon (lox, roast chicken, white wine). He said that Mexico voted for the measure only because it was trying to prod Israel into a dialogue with...
...course, the Arctic Gas proposal could theoretically put U.S.-bound gas under the control of a Canadian government that is increasingly inimical to U.S. business interests. The prospect does not worry Arctic Gas officials. They emphasize that Canadian firms, having found large deposits of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta, would not only help to finance the pipeline but also use it to export surplus gas to the U.S. Adds William Brackett, the consortium's American vice chairman: "We've been shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway for years without any friction between the nations. Besides...