Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often that Washington inspires American business leaders to rise from their seats and dream out loud about the economic frontiers that suits and pols can conquer together. But the prospect that Congress was coming closer last week to approving the new global trade treaty -- one of the most far-reaching acts of economic legislation in U.S. history -- had the chief economist for one of the nation's biggest food exporters talking the language of Manifest Destiny. "We're going to grow more grain. We're going to grow more beef. We're going to be slaughtering more hogs...
...compared the prospect of a coed punch with the decision to admit the first Black Fly members...
President Clinton has been uncharacteristically blunt in outlining the economics behind the mission to restore democracy. "The American people have already expended almost $200 million to support them [Haitian refugees], to maintain the economic embargo and the prospect of millions and millions more being spent every month for an indefinite period of time loom ahead unless...
What makes immediate action by the Security Council even more imperative is the prospect of what will happen if it doesn't act: Rwanda will begin trials of its own. In ordinary circumstances, this would be an appropriate, maybe even the best way. Rwanda is, after all, a sovereign country; the crimes that have been committed took place within its borders. International tribunals are best suited for disputes between countries, where an impartial body is necessary...
...House seats in its first midterm election. But something quite different is happening this year. Republicans, who only weeks ago would have been pleased to add three seats to the 44 they hold in the Senate and 20 to the 178 they command in the House, now relish the prospect that they might win effective control -- and perhaps an outright majority -- in one or both chambers...