Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zulus" might have assimilating in Virginia, compared with a million "Englishmen." He has expressed some doubts about the Holocaust and has said of the AIDS epidemic that "promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide." His past attacks on gays, Jews and minorities make him a scary prospect, particularly as his rhetoric becomes more nuanced and his codes more subtle this time around...
...ambitious tycoons can actually run themselves, as third-party candidates for president. And even if they aren't able to win elections, they can wield significant influence over the substance of the new administration's policy agenda. Many egos are simply too large to pass up such an attractive prospect...
...redemption witnessed the sight last December of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali enduring jeers on the streets of Sarajevo. Earlier last year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...
...Simply put, professors at Harvard and elsewhere are now guaranteed a job for life, with no reduction in benefits and prospect for a performance review, ever," former Business School dean John H. McArthur wrote in the October HBS Bulletin. "This is an impossible situation for our school...
...tide has changed. Prompted by allies weary of fruitless peacekeeping and Congress pushing for some resolution, Clinton launched a vigorous initiative last August that has already resulted in a general ceasefire and has made peace a realistic prospect for the first time since war began five years...