Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women approach work -- their peak childbearing years usually coincide with their make-or-break career years -- as well as the dating game. Instead of looking at men casually, with that insouciance so valued by the Letterman generation, panicky women for whom the biological clock is tolling evaluate each prospect for his potential as a father. This one-sided pressure to mate alters the social firmament. The very act of needing to be married and to have a child before it is too late may keep a woman from reaching her goal; a woman for whom time is running...
...when he runs for a second term. "The problem for Bill Clinton is, we're going to have a good 1994 and a good 1995," Jones said. "But look out, Bill, for 1996." However, for Americans who have endured three years of the leanest economic recovery on record, the prospect of two reasonably fat years looks just fine, thank...
...most of us, skeptical of the promise of a lifetime of happiness, which, to quote Shaw, "no person alive could bear...it would be hell on earth." We're familiar with the legendary tales of the anguish women in 1950's faced upon marriage, the prospect of 45 years of doing exciting things with Tupperware and runcible spoons. We know that Norman Rockwell lied...
...nature homosexual, his conduct is acceptable under natural law. Non-procreative sex, masturbation, pre-marital sex and homosexuality are all distant from Mansfield's ideal and thus "imperfect." Homosexuality is even further from the ideal of natural law, argued Mansfield, because by its very nature it denies the prospect of procreation...
...poorly integrated with the rough and tumble adventures of Baynes and Philip. The thrill of the chase is lost when the pursuers' high-tech vehicle goes out of commssion somewhere in the middle of the film. Haynes is the superior runner, and the audience feels let down when the prospect of impending danger is relinquished so easily. The next point of tension is a dramatic one which makes a screeching contrast to the humor and road-side adventure which preceded...