Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospect of salvation for people with AIDS seems closer than ever before. Since last November, almost 15 years after the first reported AIDS cases, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved five new drugs that when taken in various combinations with the old standby, azt, have given new life to thousands of desperately ill people. This past summer, researchers isolated a gene that appears to protect some people from HIV infection--even after repeated exposure--and could lead to new genetic therapies against AIDS. Experiments being conducted this fall may tell doctors whether they can hit the virus hard...
...also happens to have dark skin and an incandescent personality. The prospect of his success in a nearly all-white sport gives him a marketing potential as remarkable as his distance off the tee. Thus Nike and the golf-ball maker Titleist combined to guarantee Woods a reported $43 million during the next five years for product endorsements. While other golfers like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman have parlayed their championship standings into huge fortunes made off the course, Woods has the potential to take that money-spinning skill to a new level. Even though golf lacks...
Woody Allen, whose dialogue has often provided ironic counterpoint to Gershwin melodies, has made Everyone Says I Love You, in which Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda and others break into song. Fortunately, the scary prospect of Alda warbling is balanced by the songs themselves--swank standards...
...logical go-between. He had worked on Kemp's 1988 presidential campaign and then served him as chief of staff when Kemp became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under George Bush. But at that early meeting, neither Kemp nor Reed was able to take seriously the prospect of Kemp's joining the ticket. The ideological gap between Dole and Kemp was too wide and there had been too much bad blood between them...
Marriage," the handsome young Senator John F. Kennedy told a friend as he contemplated the not entirely palatable prospect, "means the end of a promising political career, as it has been based up to now almost completely on the old sex appeal." How quaint that fear seems now, at a time when the desire to own third-rate objects that Kennedy and his wife Jackie once merely touched can set off a frenzied auction--at a time, that is, when the hunger for all things Kennedy appears ever unsated. Whatever other image problems the assorted Kennedys have battled over...