Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospect of stumbling into a quagmire or of outright failure looms large for a President who was elected to cure domestic ills and who, as he begins his second 100 days in office, is already in political trouble. Clinton told a television interviewer last week that he was distressed when he heard the Bosnian Serbs had refused to go along with the peace plan negotiated by Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen. "I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary," Clinton said, "because what I got elected...
...Clinton prepares to take on Serbian forces in Bosnia, the prospect of stumbling into a quagmire looms large for a President who was elected to cure domestic ills...
...debate, discussion and deliberation are functions internal to the administration, the brain of the body politic. Simply to have thought of something does not amount to having done it. This sort of cogitation lacks any real value, political or practical--its value is merely contingent on some prospect of future action...
...said the prospect of the inter-faculty academic council reviewing what is essentially a graduate program in the humanities made her "Increasingly uncomfortable...
...PROSPECT OF DEATH FROM OVERWORK IS COMMON enough in Japan that they have a word for it -- karoshi. When the term was recently given official international recognition, however, some image-sensitive Japanese officials were upset. The World Labor Report, published by the Geneva-based International Labor Office, cites karoshi as one of the consequences of stress at work. The report also contains a survey that says more than 40% of Japanese fear they may work themselves into an early grave. The Japanese Ministry of Labor questions the report's data and is filing a formal protest with the International Labor...