Word: prospect
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Rudenstine can't really believe his own rhetoric of restructuring. The underlying reason for the plan is, simply put, the fund drive. The Bok Center, the Social Science Center, and the post-restructuring era of intellectual fertilization are a mobilizing myth. To prospective donors, more chairs, more financial aid, and other quantitative goals are boring. Much more exciting is the prospect of funding a dynamic scheme with easily visible results that will bring about a qualitative change in the academy. The plan may cost millions of dollars, but an inspiring "vision" that excites the alumni can bring in billions...
...policymaker says the murder allegation was mentioned in the State Department human-rights report on Haiti "because we believe it to be true." However, even these officials support the reinstatement of Aristide as Haiti's President, believing the continued rule of the Haitian military is a far more terrible prospect...
Many Harvard students are studying to be the doctors and scientists of tomorrow. Certainly, they should be concerned with the issues of modern science and with the impact their future work might have. Why has there been no outcry, no wave of hysteria about the prospect of this brave new world...
...prospect of spending Thanks giving at school has left some students understandably dismayed...
Maybe so, but the Russians have not been happy with such a prospect up to now. Anything positive Yeltsin might have said to Christopher was more likely in response to a go-slow signal coming from NATO defense ministers when they met last month in Travemunde, Germany. Under the ambiguous slogan "Partnership for Peace," the military chiefs made it clear that East European states would not be joining the alliance any time soon. They would be offered military cooperation agreements, but not full membership in NATO -- which today includes 16 states -- until some vague point in the future...