Word: prospect
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...heard quite a bit about "empowerment" and "making the student voice heard" in the past few weeks. But on issues from public service to ethnic studies, students don't just want to be heard--they want to be obeyed. They want their input to be binding on administrators. This prospect is quite funny, almost as amusing as last Thursday's moronic rally for more student voice. The rally was a concrete demonstration of what ridiculous results we get when students try to recapture the spirit of '60s activism...
...what should have been Gingrich's finest moment, the Speaker faces the prospect of seeing many of his legislative dreams collapse. Term limits, legal reform and a tougher crime bill are dead; tax cuts and welfare reform are in danger. Now many Republicans worry that the Contract with America's crown jewel, a balanced budget by the year 2002, could be put off until after the election...
These are troubling times in France, and there may be worse to come. With Chirac promising two years of belt tightening in order to shrink the government's huge deficits, the country faces the grim prospect of continued high unemployment and a paroxysm of social unrest that some fear could match the upheaval of May 1968. Chirac is betting that a dose of fiscal discipline will be rewarded by the return of strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce...
...prospect of the President's arrival in Belfast last week was itself a spur toward peace. Clinton's visit helped "concentrate the mind," in the words of British Prime Minister John Major, and thereby sparked a sudden agreement that gave the peace process renewed momentum...
...better off in the custody of strangers. But what to make of a case like Roper's? Her seven-year-old son is attending school regularly. Her two-year-old daughter seemed content as she perched on the Naugahyde couch, watching cartoons. And Roper appeared genuinely distraught at the prospect of losing her kids. But what about the drug test? And the presence of a new boyfriend in her apartment? "I don't know who this 'Doug' guy is," Davis says. "The kids are O.K. one day, but what about the next day? I can't predict human behavior...