Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cigarette-company executives that + they need not fear any further embarrassing hearings or new antismoking laws when he takes over Energy and Commerce's health subcommittee. And at a postelection barbecue at a German beer garden in Austin, oil and gas producers were drooling in their steins at the prospect of Texas Representative Bill Archer's taking charge of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws for the petroleum industry. Barry Williamson, a Texas Republican official at the barbeque, exulted that since last Tuesday, "the air smells sweeter and the sky is bluer...
...biggest tax cut in the history of the world" referring to GATT provisions that will reduce tariffs worldwide. And, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, in an exclusive interview with TIME editors, called the delaying tactics "outrageous" and said he'd been getting calls from "incredulous" finance ministers stunned by the prospect of delays in ratifying GATT.Why all the fuss about a short delay? After all, a new world order with freer trade and bigger bucks for business is something that should put the GOP in a Pavlovian frenzy. But it's not so simple, TIME business reporter Tom Curry explains...
...those with serious or chronic health problems, the prospect is even worse. Some plans do not accept new members with pre-existing conditions...
...worked for the Kennedy campaign, and said he supports Kennedy because he is "concerned about the prospect of a Republican Senate...
...Romney decides to challenge Kerry, he will not be a political new-comer anymore, a prospect which could hurt him in two years...