Word: prospect
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...view, there is a large and growing constituency for the Semitic Museum. Both University Hall and Massachusetts Hall should have known (and probably did) that there is still the prospect of a transfer of nearly $1.5 million from a private foundation to the museum. There are other pockets, and deep ones...
...taxes paid in a chaotic system rife with inequities. Credit will be somewhat restrained when commercial banks are freed of various obligations to support money-losing state enterprises, but that will be some time coming. Finally, privatization of state-owned companies was acknowledged as a distant prospect -- though the communique made it clear that for the moment public ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Says a Chinese economist: "They're making the blueprint now, but we're going to call 1994 the year of economic reforms...
...likewise. Then he grew disillusioned and now ranks as one of Freud's harshest American debunkers. Even while arguing that Freud was a liar and that some of his ideas did not arise from clinical observations but instead were lifted from "folklore," Crews grows cautious about the prospect of a world suddenly without Freud or his methods: "Those of us who are concerned about pointing out Freud's intellectual failings are not, by and large, experts in the entire range of psychotherapy. I take no position on whether psychotherapy is a good thing...
China's leap forward is still hampered by its rigid politics -- and the prospect that the system could soon change dramatically. The man who was not there in Seattle but who figuratively sat in on all the meetings was Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader and chief reformer. Deng, now 89 and very frail, is China's last emperor -- the tail end of the charismatic generation of military and political leaders who held power alone, and he is not likely to rule China much longer...
...normal species would be delighted at the prospect of cloning. No more nasty surprises like sickle cell or Down syndrome-just batch after batch of high-grade and, genetically speaking, immortal offspring! But representatives of the human species are responding as if someone had proposed adding Satanism to the grade-school curriculum. Suddenly, perfectly secular folks are throwing around words like sanctity and dredging up medieval-era arguments against the hubris of science. No one has proposed burning him at the stake, but the poor fellow who induced a human embryo to double itself has virtually recanted -- proclaiming his reverence...