Word: prospect
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There is still time, however, for action to prevent a larger Balkan war. "One option is containment in a southern direction," says Zalmay Khalilzad, director of strategic doctrine at the Rand Corp. "If the Serbs win in Bosnia, the prospect of the war spreading increases." He calls for more energetic involvement in Macedonia, where the U.S. has deployed a token force of 300 soldiers to join a Nordic battalion already in place. So small a unit is nothing more than a "trip wire," a warning to would-be aggressors that an attack would bring in much greater U.S. military power...
...This week Israel's highest court will finally render its judgment on Demjanjuk's appeal, for which hearings were completed just over a year ago. Yoram Sheftel, Demjanjuk's lawyer, feels "fully confident" his client will go free; Israelis, in fact, are steeling themselves for the prospect that what may be the last major Nazi war trial will end in failure. New evidence supporting Demjanjuk's contention that he was the victim of mistaken identity has convinced many observers that while he may be Ivan the Not Very Nice, accountable for lesser crimes, Demjanjuk will be cleared of the atrocities...
...medical community was so excited about the prospect of a vaccine against Lyme disease that the Yale and Harvard researchers won backing from the Smith-Kline and Beecham pharmaceuticals company...
...most talked-about prospect for the QVC-HSN merger is the creation of a fifth network on a par with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. A portion of the transaction gives QVC -- which is partly owned by cable-TV visionary John Malone of Tele-Communications Inc. -- the option to buy a controlling interest in HSN's TV spin-off, Silver King Communications, which owns 12 UHF stations, enough to form the core of a network...
...prospect of a QVC-HSN merger appeals to many suppliers. Greg Renker, president of Guthy-Renker Corp., which sells some 20 products through home- shopping channels, says the deal "will double our window of opportunity." Before, Renker could sell items ranging from vitamins to sunglasses through either QVC or HSN, but not both. However, Kurt Barnard, publisher of Barnard's Retail Marketing Report, says, "This merger will reduce competition. Instead of two channels, there will be only one, and suppliers will no longer be able to play one channel against the other to negotiate a better price...