Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while most law students were enthusiastic about or amused by the letter, others saw a darker side to the prospect of a diverse faculty...
...Harvard is not scared at the prospect of this tough schedule. It has its first victory under its belt, and is expecting mant more to follow...
...prospect of multiplying today's TV listings has launched a furious debate over what a fragmented and TV-anesthetized society will do with 100 - or 500 - offerings. Will scores of narrowcast channels devoted to arcana like needlepointing or fly fishing fracture whatever remains of a mass $ culture, leaving Americans with little common ground for discourse? Or will the slots be given over to endless rebroadcasts of a handful of hit movies and TV shows - raising the nightmarish specter of the Terminator saying "I'll be back" every few minutes...
During the legal wrangling, Baby Jessica has been growing up in the DeBoers' Cape Cod-style home, listening to bedtime stories and practicing words like Mommy and Daddy. The prospect that she might be legally taken from her home -- which even the Iowa courts considered "exemplary" -- has dumbfounded many Americans. But while the DeBoers have garnered the most sympathy, they also share part of the blame. Within weeks after they first tucked Jessica into her new nursery, Roberta and Jan learned that the biological parents were fighting to regain custody. By choosing to dig in even after the adoption proceedings...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...