Word: prospect
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...Babbitt nomination that raised the most worrisome prospect, a real confirmation battle. Last year the Interior Secretary angered Senators from Western states by trying to raise fees for grazing, mining and water rights on federal lands. As Babbitt pulled out in front of the other choices last week, Utah's Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted a fight. Though minority leader Robert Dole told the President privately that Babbitt could still be confirmed, probably by a vote of 80 to 20, the White House remained concerned about the possibility of a revolt spreading among Senate Democrats...
...didn't seem to occur to the disgruntled Senators that they should have been pleased by the prospect of getting Babbitt onto the court and away from land-use policy. "This isn't about logic," said a White House aide. "This is about personalities and personal relationships." By Thursday night it was looking like no for the Secretary. "They trial-ballooned the Babbitt thing," said an aide to a Western Senator. "It definitely popped...
Administration officials admit privately that the President does not know what move to make next. The prospect of tougher sanctions and the appointment of a new envoy revive the possibility of negotiations -- but probably not until the bite of the embargo is felt months from now. While no one seems eager to invade, as National Security Adviser Anthony Lake said, "it is an option. We, of course, are looking...
...involved in such episodes aren't eager to discuss them. But some acknowledge that the prospect of watching lifelong dreams shatter as the military shrinks can make them lash out in rage and frustration. "It stresses you out, but you can't hit the officers," an Army man says. "So you wait till you get home and take it out on her and the kids." Another soldier will only say of his wife that "we abused each other." In fact, the Army survey suggests that spousal abuse usually involves violence by both partners. But women, it notes, are far more...
...prospect of reconciliation was too much for Hutu hard-liners, and the plotting began. Well-connected residents of Kigali knew something awful was coming and began sending their children out of the country. What looked at first like a spontaneous eruption of ancient ethnic hate appears now to have been carefully planned. Though no one has been allowed in to investigate, U.N. officials suspect the hard-line presidential guard as being behind the assassination...