Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his political affiliation still unknown, both parties are salivating over the prospect of the general gracing their ticket. And in many ways he is the ideal candidate. He is a true American success story, he has strong credentials on race issues, and he is one of the most popular military leaders since Dwight Eisenhower. While his domestic views are an unknown quantity, rumor has it that he is progressive at heart...
While there is a strong argument for equalizing financial aid--why should a prospect become more needy at one school than another, given relatively equal tuition?--the practice of admissions "overlap" is a dubious one at best. Whether or not MIT took part in "price fixing," the financial aid system as it now stands encourages a flagrant excess of academic recruiting...
According to Stan Greenberg, the White House pollster, Americans believe the prospect for change is improving now that Clinton has turned his attention to such middle-of-the-road concerns as health care, free trade and "reinventing" government. A day after his health-care speech, Clinton flew to Florida for a Nightline-televised national town meeting on health care and for more than two hours demonstrated his formidable grasp of the problem. "It has been a long time since the public has seen him wrestle with the problems of everyday working Americans," said a White House official. "They didn...
...most preventable worry is the students, and there is no doubt they are abashed at the prospect of turning in a dripping mass of pulp at the Lamont desk...
Fogg Art Museum. "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection" through Nov. 14. "Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Wintrhop Bequest" through Nov. 11. "Chaste, Chased and Chastened: Old Testament Women in Northern Prints," through...