Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What has concerned me is that it's the extremes of drinking, being arrested for driving under the influence, getting injured in fights," he said. "These are really high risk people and the fact that they're more likely to own guns is a frightening prospect...
...What has concerned me is that it's the extremes of drinking, being arrested for driving under the influence, getting injured in fights," he said. "These are really high risk people and the fact that they're more likely to own guns is a frightening prospect...
...York Times once called the farm "historic literary territory." White would have trembled at the tag. In his will, he stipulated that the property remain in private hands, to forestall any effort to transform it into a shrine--a prospect he found horrifying. The farm was sold to a couple from South Carolina, Robert and Mary Gallant, who have made their changes with delicacy and taste. White's chicken coop is now an artist's studio, and the woodshed is an open-air sitting room. The animals are gone from the barn where Charlotte wove her web and Wilbur...
Outside the pavilion, Hamilton has erected a 90-ft. wall of glass and steel that blocks the prospect of the building from afar. Up close, looking through the glass, the building seems to wobble and melt, blurred and distorted...
...Without the logistical and artillery support of the Pakistani army, the intruders would be mopped up pretty quickly," says Rahman. "If the intruders fight on, that may be a sign that Pakistan?s military isn?t under the control of its civilian political leaders." And that?s a frightening prospect in an economically and politically fragile, nuclear-armed state...