Word: prospect
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...balanced-budget amendment, which will require an estimated $1 trillion in spending cuts by 2002. It must still pass the Senate, where Democrats want Republicans to detail in advance just where the cuts will fall, and then be approved by at least 38 state legislatures, a more iffy prospect. But whatever the pitfalls ahead, it was the bumpy process of getting it through the House that surprised Gingrich, who had to squash a rebellion among first-termers who don't like the sound of terms like compromise and half a loaf...
...Guest Registry, a data base used by many talk shows that lists 2,400 people who have stories or problems they think would make good talk-show fodder. Apparently the chance for a moment of TV fame (and a free trip to New York City or Chicago) outweighs the prospect of embarrassing yourself in front of millions. Maybe, too, talking out your problems in front of a TV audience is a way of validating emotions your friends and family tend to ignore...
...Republicans and push for support. Rubin and other officials began telephoning reporters and editors with spin. No one disputed that the stakes are high. Treasury's Rubin argued that if the loan guarantees were defeated, financial markets would panic in Mexico and in other emerging countries. ``You have the prospect of very serious ramifications in Mexico,'' he told Time on Friday, ``and because of the role that Mexico has had as a prototype with respect to developing countries, the very real prospect of spillover into other countries...
...drinking water.'' By the end of the week, welcome food and water shipments finally arrived at the Nishinomiya sports center and other large shelters--enough, in fact, so that authorities claimed everyone was getting two good meals a day. In some neighborhoods, the resumption of running water reduced the prospect of disease. Makers of goods ranging from helicopters to lingerie donated wares (the local yakuza had already turned themselves into neighborhood godfathers by dispensing necessities in their district), and tractors and cranes began working day and night to dig out victims and remove the huge hulk of the collapsed highway...
Indeed, students intrigued by the prospect of a science class without finals should be warned that Chem 8 and 9 is far from easy. Students who have taken the course rountinely call it one of the hardest classes they have encountered at Harvard...