Word: prospect
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Gingrich marshals his forces in a completely new way: by offering his colleagues glory instead of goodies. It was near midnight on the night of Aug. 3 when Gingrich faced the prospect of watching the revolution he had plotted for 20 years stall before his eyes. The measure he was pushing through the House was a crucial 1996 spending bill designed to slice everything from summer-jobs programs to home-heating assistance. But in the byzantine way Congress packages its legislation, the bill had become laden with several measures involving abortion, the rare issue where principle promised to trump politics...
...first week of my first year's winter (the year Boston received 80-some inches of snow), my starry eyes reflected the snowy pavements. I loved the thought of seasons. Until the snow stayed. And stayed. And the weather dropped below zero. And the prospect of putting on a sweater, coat, gloves, scarf and hat merely to go outside made me never want to leave my dorm again...
Ehrlich said yesterday that he was already planning to take a year off between graduation and law school, so the prospect of running PBHA next fall is not so daunting...
PBHA members have talked in the past month about the prospect of paying PBH's staff members and making PBH fully autonomous from the University, which currently pays the salaries of its 10 staffers...
Investors, jittery at the prospect that the Federal Reserve will not lower interest rates after all when it meets on December 19, pushed the Dow Jones industrial average into negative territory Tuesday. The Dow closed down 9.40 to end the day 5,174.92. The New York Stock Exchange composite index also dipped, 0.37 to 329.80. On the Big Board, decliners led advancers 1,368 to 990, with 749 unchanged. Volume was moderate with 349.42 million shares traded. The Nasdaq composite index fell 7.36 to 1,054.14. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks dipped 0.74 to 618.78. The American Stock Exchange...