Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the classes of 1939, 1940 and 1941. The book's main point was that the world had changed drastically due to the Great Depression and World War II, which in turn affected Harvard in unprecedented ways. Particularly, the pleasant, calm and noncompetitive atmosphere combined with the prospect of a guaranteed safe and prosperous future, which had dominated Harvard for more than a century, were vanishing at a fast pace and being replaced by the gloom of a rough and uncertain future...
...knew it was time for me to hand in my work when I woke up that morning, panicked. I had neglected to place accents on my "detentes." Ca alors! I tore open my spring binders, despondent at the prospect of reprinting the two manuscripts, 137 pages each, that had kept me up near dawn feeding the printer the night before. I grew more desperate as my Microsoft Word failed to find any suitable candidates for "search and replace." But suddenly, an epiphany. My addled brain had conflated "detente" with "deterrence"--a good old American word, without all those French accents...
...coincidence that both candidates are running less on what they will do than on who they are. Riding home on Air Force One two weeks ago, Clinton chatted off the record for nearly two hours on everything from the new Redford movies, the pitfalls of instant information, the prospect of living past 100, the importance of cheap vacations to American culture, global warming, peach cobbler and the NCAA basketball playoffs...
...could grow to $1.2 trillion over 40 years. All three solutions would create different winners and losers. For example, the first plan would favor workers born before 1965. Despite such wrinkles, two factors promise change--the awareness among young voters that the current system will fail them and the prospect of several hundred billion dollars pouring into the stock and bond markets each year. In fact, a massive securities industry lobbying effort has already begun, and at least one investment house is devising new financial instruments that it claims will yield a guaranteed minimum return--just what Congress might require...
...casinos have moved from being the private preserve of two states--Nevada and New Jersey--into the American mainstream. With 126 Native American tribes reaping profits from gaming, commercial companies argued for equal rights. So far, 24 states have legalized casinos, while 37 have embraced lotteries, lured by the prospect of easy money in hard fiscal times. And the games have begun to crossbreed: lottery agencies have added instant-cash video poker and keno games, racetracks have expanded into off-track betting, and grocery shops have installed slot machines. Overall, Americans gambled away more than $40 billion last year...