Word: prospect
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...liberal and a conservative camp would address issues free from the "dogmatic Utopianism" that once clouded their debates. At a time when many Europeans see the Clinton Administration moving toward a social-democratic approach, with its emphasis on national health care and industrial policy, that raises the fascinating prospect of two very different systems converging on the same principle: using the power of the state to put people first...
...Kentucky. "Hillbilly was what the people in town called us," he writes. "Hick, ridgerunner, redneck, inbred ingrate, and my personal favorite, pig-fucker. My mother is my sixth cousin. My brother and sister are also my cousins but nobody in my family ever seduced a hog." Dissatisfied by the prospect of a life lived by moonshine and bluegrass, Offutt sets out for New York City to become an actor. He roams the U.S., never managing to hold down a job or a relationship; we see him dodge an arranged marriage in Minneapolis, grab a drag queen's penis...
...nomination is certainly viewed as an outstanding prospect," he said...
...some members of the oil industry who had expressed public opposition" to Clinton's energy tax. He went no further, but another senior Administration official observes that "if they oppose us, every industry knows there is a price to pay." Several lobbyists say their clients are spooked by the prospect that unless they cooperate with the White House, they could suffer the fate of drug companies, whose stocks have been hammered in part because of criticism from the President and his wife about alleged price gouging...
...reignite the global arms race and return to angry confrontations with the West. But an assertive Russia under a nationalist or neocommunist banner could be a disaster for its neighbors and the West. It would force reassessment of policies thoroughly changed by the end of the cold war. The prospect of facing an unfriendly Russia once more might force the Clinton Administration not just to cancel some planned Pentagon budget cuts but to begin beefing up military spending again, dashing hopes for reducing the budget deficit...