Word: prospect
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...more year, despite Beijing's "unacceptable record on human rights." While noting that "China continues to deny its citizens freedom of speech, association and religion, and fails to guarantee humane treatment of prisoners," White House press secretary Mike McCurry noted that "broad engagement with China . . . offers the best prospect for progress in all areas of concern...
What few nonscientists realize is that nature is packed with all sorts of creatures that have changed little from ancient times. For that reason, some of Ambergene's potential competitors view the company's business strategy as something of a gimmick. There's hardly any need to prospect for ancient life forms in amber, says David Miller, vice president of research and development at EcoScience, based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Microbes that trace their roots back millions of years exist all over the place, even in suburban backyards. Moreover, as a source for discovering new, more effective drugs, amber...
...will air another prime-time soap special on June 21, which will plug summer story lines for all its daytime dramas. The summer season is an important one for soaps because it offers the prospect of an expanded audience of teenagers home from school. CBS Daytime is launching a high-visibility summer campaign that includes radio, print and prime-time advertising in cities where viewer decline has been particularly precipitous, such as Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle and Washington...
Students who lived in Dunster House and others who knew the two roommates who died there this morning said they were appalled by the prospect that such an incident could happen in their midst...
...hideous prospect--that someone inside the CIA was betraying the agency's operations to the KGB. Faced with a disaster of such apocalyptic proportions, the agency might have been expected to turn Langley upside down. To pull out all the stops. To launch a major investigation...