Word: prospect
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Setting the trend, the Afrikaner Volksfront has a similar, but more institutionalized, bond with Gatsha Buthelezi and the Inkatha Freedom Party in Natal. Their Freedom Alliance poses a serious threat to the prospect of free and fair elections, a threat no-one could have perceived even a year...
...third time the "joke" has become a real threat. It's not a threat of literal violence at all, but the threat that the girl who is singing is already romantically enmeshed in a compromising situation with the boy she's addressing. It's a scary prospect, and one the song paints not in any simplistic terms of rage (cf. Bikini Kill--who are a good band, but not this good), but with genuine...
Generally, employers make up the difference in the final months, Homer said. But many students have only just begun new spring semester jobs, and new employers are balking at the prospect of paying students' full salaries for the entire semester...
...certain good is no institute a price ceiling. This is exactly what we are seeing how in Cambridge. Fixed rents have aggravated the shortage since people are less willing to rent their property knowing they can only charge minimal rents. And rent control has decreased property values since the prospect of purchasing property to rent out is scarcely enticing...
More worrisome to Israelis as well as to Arafat is the prospect of growing support for Hamas, the militant Islamic organization that is the P.L.O.'s chief rival for the allegiance of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Hamas called the mosque massacre "a final message to Arafat and his group to either return to his people and abandon his surrender to the Jews or his people will consider him and his group part and parcel of Zionism." Freih Abu Middain thinks the massacre "crowns Hamas as the group that speaks the straightforward truth about the Israelis...