Word: prospect
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Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate. The verbal battle over invasion was at bottom a difference of opinion over whether Haiti was worth any American deaths at all, whether they occurred during an invasion or in an attempt to police an unruly and often violent country. It also touched on a perennial national anxiety: when and under what circumstances the U.S. should ever use military force abroad...
...some experienced offenders, the prospect of jail can make a real difference in their decisions about what crimes they are willing to commit. L.A.'s Garcetti recalls the calculating questions of a teen who raised his hand when the district attorney appeared at a detention center last April. "If I kill someone," the kid asked, "can I be executed...
...best players in league history last season by rushing for 1,731 yards (second in the nation) and scoring 21 touchdowns. In addition to Elias, the team lost virtually everyone at the skill positions and half of its offensive line. Senior tackle Carl Teter, an NFL prospect, is a big exception...
...just new viruses that have doctors worried. Perhaps the most ominous prospect of all is a virulent strain of influenza. Even garden-variety flu can be deadly to the very old, the very young and those with weak immune systems. But every so often, a highly lethal strain emerges -- usually from domesticated swine in Asia. Unlike hiv, flu moves through the air and is highly contagious. The last killer strain showed up in 1918 and claimed 20 million lives -- more than all the combat deaths in World War I. And that was before global air travel; the next outbreak could...
That may soon change. The governments of Guyana and Suriname have begun to open huge tracts of forests for logging by timber and trading companies from Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia. Conservationists around the world are horrified at the prospect, aware that in southern Asia the loggers have ravaged forests, leaving a legacy of eroded hills, silt-choked rivers and barren fields. If such exploitation cannot be prevented in sparsely populated countries like Guyana and Suriname, the environmentalists ask, can deforestation be stopped anywhere? For thousands of years, deforestation has presaged the fall of civilizations. Now, for the first time, humanity...