Word: prospect
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...enough to throw both political parties momentarily off balance. But when Bradley also revealed-almost offhandedly-that he had phoned Colin Powell and was trying to get in touch with Ross Perot, all sides were hit with the realization that they are facing a presidential race in which the prospect of one or even several credible independent candidates will have to be factored in, and that some sort of alliance could result in an independent ticket featuring, say, Powell and Bradley...
...addition to the unsettling threat of mano-a-mano violence, the ancestral environment featured periodic starvation, incurable disease and the prospect of being eaten by a beast. Such inconveniences of primitive life have recently been used to dismiss the Unabomber's agenda. The historian of science Daniel Kevles, writing in the New Yorker, observes how coarse the "preindustrial past" looks, once "stripped of the gauzy romanticism of myth." Regarding the Unabomber's apparent aim of reversing technological history and somehow transporting our species back toward a more primitive age, Kevles declares, "Most of us don't want to live...
Last Wednesday, Lilia Fagundes, 40, was shot once in the chest in her grocery store on Prospect St. during an apparent robbery attempt...
...prospect that this review could embarrass the vice president--or alienate some of his constituents--was apparently enough to get Marius...
Although many Newsday staffers are facing either the prospect of folding themselves into the larger Long Island Newsday operation or looking for new employment, McCarthy already has her next year mapped...