Word: prospect
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Still, consumers worry about the prospect of additional taxes to pay for health-care reform. And they remain too nervous about their jobs to increase their spending much. Gauges of consumer confidence have fallen steadily since April. "In some sense, I've got a greater feeling of security today," says Michael Segal, a Los Angeles real estate investor. "I've refinanced my home three times, and I feel more at ease with the purchases I make. However, there is an unanticipated something out there, a fear of the unknown. There should be even more security than there...
...years Brazilian gold miners have been pressing to prospect on the 37,000- sq.-mi. homeland of the Yanomami Indians. Rebuffed by the Brazilian government, which has sent police to break up their encampments, the miners apparently have turned to murderous violence against the Yanomami. In the worst outbreak to date, miners massacred more than 30 members of the tribe last week, including 10 children, some of whom were decapitated by machetes. International outcry over the killings could lead to trouble for Brazil in its requests for loans from international lenders...
...persuade him to say the story was false. Suspicious of Ellis' motives, Sasha brought a tape recorder in his pocket. On the tape, which Ostrovskiy obtained from Sasha and gave to TIME, Ellis and associates are plainly heard beseeching Sasha to say the pictures were staged, holding out the prospect that if he did so TIME would have to pay him "very good money. $20,000." They tell Sasha, "There is big money here. You and the kids can get real decent money and live in clover the rest of your lives. . . . Alexey ((the photographer)) made his money...
Those talks are supposed to resume in late August, if Secretary of State Warren Christopher can nudge the players from their deadlock when he visits the region this week. That prospect provided the background for the seven-day barrage. Both guerrilla groups targeted by the Israelis -- Hizballah and Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front -- are dedicated to the destruction of Israel and violently oppose the peace process that began 21 months...
...journalists really want to know is which of them will get Paul Duke's job as moderator of PBS's venerable news-analysis show, Washington Week in Review. Since June, when Duke, 66, announced his decision to retire, much of the national press corps has been gaga over the prospect of succeeding him. At last count more than 50 applications had been submitted, including many from print journalists who, in other circumstances, enjoy belittling TV. But never mind consistency -- the Washington Week job is an opportunity not to be missed: the pay is good (low six figures); the lifting...