Word: prospect
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Here, where Cambridge, Prospect and Hampshire Streets collide to create what one resident calls "a screwed-up intersection," Portuguese, Chinese and Filippino are heard as often as English...
...even of advancing -- which is probably a major reason why Serb commanders undertook to invade Bihac. At the practical level, the strategy was to take land needed to open a rail link between their forces and kindred units holding territory across the border in Croatia -- a prospect that prompted the Croatian government to threaten intervention. Beyond that, the unpunished siege of Bihac could and did shatter Western resolve...
Ince cited interviews she had conducted with scientists for whom a major research motivator was the prospect of medicating people with a putative genetic predisposition to violence...
Certainly, nowhere is the prospect of Republican control of the Hill as disagreeable to Clinton as on Foreign Relations. For the past seven years, the panel has been a quiet congressional backwater, politely posing few problems for Clinton or his predecessor, George Bush. But control of the panel moves from the courtly, bland and ineffectual Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to the reactionary Helms, who promises to let few Administration positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler...
While the prospect of nonstop hearings promises to make life miserable at the State Department, senior Clinton officials are not visibly troubled by Helms yet. In a pep talk to his top aides, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott pointed out that Presidents retain huge advantages in managing foreign affairs because they can do so much without congressional approval. He added that November exit polls showed foreign policy does not much concern voters at the moment; voters seem to want more continuity with the past in foreign policy, not less...