Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thesis scared her, but the prospect of starting an R & B music career in risky New York doesn...
...pursues a professional hockey career and she attends medical school in Kentucky during the next few years, the two will have to be apart frequently. It was the prospect of his fiancee having to deal with wedding plans all on her own, says Auer, that led them to elope to New Hampshire on March...
When Dan Quayle assailed Murphy Brown last year, it marked perhaps the nadir of recent American political discourse. It offered little prospect of being surpassed either in oddity or stupidity. Bill Clinton's famous saxophone performance on the Arsenio Hall show plumbed similar depths, but perhaps it could be excused by the exigencies of the presidential campaign...
Entertainment programs, as the name implies, try to entertain without necessarily challenging. For a politician, the Tonight Show offers the prospect of a free ride: face exposure, name recognition, and no tough questions. It is relatively obvious that faced with the choice between getting thrashed by Ted Koppel or "hosted" by Jay Leno, a politician will choose the latter option. It is certainly a proposition that the producers of such light entertainment understand. They bear part of the responsibility for the political complacency that characterizes the age of infotainment, providing a deleterious short cut for lazy leaders...
...ears, but in Japan the reaction was quite different. In the last clause, Owada had dared to say in public that she sought fulfillment in her own terms. To young women -- and many men -- that came close to calling for a new covenant. Marriage is not necessarily an attractive prospect to an educated woman, especially one of the growing number who, like Owada, have lived part of their childhood abroad and have a wider and more cosmopolitan experience than most Japanese...