Word: horizons
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...Ironically, perhaps, given the feverish nature of civil rights and abortion rights protests surrounding Ashcroft's nomination, there's very little on the foreseeable horizon at Justice involving any of those hot-button issues. Instead, the department faces a docket heavy with antitrust issues, including the ongoing Microsoft case and various pending airline mergers. In the coming months, Ashcroft will also get to weigh in on a few pieces of tobacco legislation...
...future. But the organizers may find that such concerns are more easily dealt with at moments when the power brokers are feeling flush and confident. This time around, most of their attention may be focused on trying to read the message in the clouds gathering on the horizon of the world economy...
...prosperity of the last eight years. Balanced budgets, a mainstay of Republicanism in the '50s, were one of Newt Gingrich's rallying cries in the '90s, and are the one thing everybody can agree on in 2001, especially with those city-of-gold surpluses shimmering on the horizon...
...Technically you cannot say you have discovered a black hole until you show that what you have discovered an object that is massive and that has an event horizon," said astronomy professor Ramesh Narayan, one of the researchers...
...specific details of our theory may or may not be correct," Narayan said, "but whatever explanation one comes up with will very likely have to invoke the event horizon to explain this dramatic difference in the brightness of these two systems...