Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without the prospect of work, those returnees who did manage to return home have little chance of recovering what they lost. Instead they are forced to live off the goodwill of their impoverished neighbors, further hastening the downward spiral of a village already on its last legs. "Those who left and were granted asylum were the town's best people," says Gerard Phillippe, Petit-Trou's justice of the peace and the only one of the returnees who has carved out some measure of success. "They were the ones who organized the peasants and who would have...
...started out ignoring the Senator. That was remedied with a cozy White House dinner of men and wives. Still, the middle- road campaign Clinton became a left-laner once in the White House. Moynihan is both liberal and conservative, intrigued by diverse economic theories but also horrified by the prospect of immense new programs and bureaucracies. He even lofted his doubts in the presence of Hillary Rodham Clinton, health-care czarina. How wise would it be, he wondered out loud, to take over even more planning for American life? The courtly Senator admits the relationship is "cordial, but not intimate...
...elections will not usher in a ready-formed New South Africa. Even as most South Africans delight in the prospect of free elections, they are beginning to sense that the immediate future holds much hardship and that the three years of turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
...whites afraid of the prospect of a black President...
...years ago, in the depths of the recession, Harvard was faced with the prospect of a massive, complicated project: renovating all 16 first-year dorms...