Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lesson is clear: leaders who command repressive police states, and who couldn't care less about their citizens' economic status, dig in. If the prospect of military intervention is perceived as remote, they quickly come to believe that the will of the international community can be successfully ignored as long as there's money to be made in the smuggling business, which there always is. Local pride, too, often works to support those who defy sanctions; misplaced nationalism sometimes causes oppressed people to rally round their leaders rather than succumb to pressure from outsiders...
Suddenly, the team was 10-4-1 and looking the prospect of its best season in years right...
...sense, the team can be said to have been saved by low expectations. Coming into the season, the Crimson was faced with the prospect of having to make-do with a mess of supporting players. The team had lost star forward Tyler Rullman to graduation, and his 19.5 points per game and solid, hole-plugging defense inside were not to be replaced overnight...
Wechsler saved the details of his flight for a forthcoming book on the subject, but he said in a phone interview from Berlin that he left Bavaria because he became "panic stricken and frightened" at the prospect of being sent to Fort Leavenworth, a notorious military prison...
...President felt he had to intervene now, his allies say, because the health-care fight is entering a crucial stage in which a compromise must be reached before the process loses momentum. His top domestic initiative hangs in the balance. Clinton faces the prospect that he not only might fail to get what he wants, but might get nothing at all this year...