Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Soviets helped out with $1.1 billion in hard-currency credits and $200 million in commodities. Poland is still shopping for $8 billion worth of new loans and credits in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. Chances are that Poland will have to reschedule some of its debt-a humiliating prospect for a country that bills itself as the world's eleventh largest industrial power...
...scouts came to the University of Minnesota in 1973 with high hopes and open wallets. The man from the Minnesota Vikings had his eye on a prospect for tight end, a graduating senior big enough (6 ft. 6 in., 220 lbs.) and fast enough to make it in the N.F.L. despite the fact that he had not played football since high school. The scout from the Atlanta Hawks sought to sign up a power forward who had averaged 15.3 points and 7.4 rebounds a game during his college basketball career. And the fellow from the San Diego Padres was ecstatic...
While the NATO leaders did not entertain the possibility of military reponse, they discussed some risks that Alliance members could face in the event of an invasion. One example: the prospect of hundreds of Polish "boat people" escaping across the icy Baltic Sea, which would pose more than a refugee problem. "Do the Danes or the West Germans go to the protection of fleeing Poles with their frigates or patrol boats, and risk exchanging fire with the Russians?" asked a NATO official...
...other developed countries, the damage has been equally severe. The rising cost of crude has flooded international banks with billions upon billions in petrodollars, and strained the world monetary system to the breaking point. Nations everywhere now confront the prospect of a long period of slow growth. France's recently released five-year economic plan for the first time makes no growth predictions at all. Rather, it says darkly, "tomorrow will be worse than today...
...cheers-"no banalities, no pseudo-expert profundities phrased in coachly patois, no giggles, no inside jokes, no second-guessing, no numbing prattle." Just one announcer will be on hand, says NBC, to offer only the sort of essential information (injuries, rulings) that a stadium announcer traditionally provides. The prospect is engaging, even if it may be shocking to see a game presented merely for the sake of the drama on the field...