Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard was coming off of a dominating win at Dartmouth a week ago, while Loyola, well-rested after a three-week break, was pumped up by the prospect of giving its eight seniors a final season to remember for a long. long time...
...investment in a company whose future earnings promise a bigger return than Seagram's declining liquor business. One of Bronfman's oldest show-business friends, movie producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire), insists it is not even the entertainment side of Time Warner that most intrigues Bronfman but the prospect for future profits on the information superhighway. Says Puttnam: "The idea that he has stars in his eyes is just nonsense...
...some celebrities enter the confessional business motivated by something more substantial than the prospect of publicity: the sunny conviction that the saga of their cruel lives will serve as a morality tale...
...Dominic had a good start for us but falteredlate, and Tommy was in the kind of slump that lotsof second-year players have," Flyers GeneralManager Russ Farewell said. "[Israel] is a reallygood prospect, and although I would have to expecthe'll start the year in Hershey, he'll have achance at the big-league camp to prove himself...
FAULT LINES. Once Mandela's Cabinet is announced, the unity government is likely to show significant lines of stress. It will probably include Communist Party chairman Joe Slovo -- an interesting prospect for white officials who long used the fear of communist encirclement to justify apartheid policies. No fewer than 16 of the top 50 names on the A.N.C. parliamentary election list are members of the Communist Party. While they have forsworn Stalinism, Slovo still argues that "only under socialism could you have a combination of political and economic democracy...