Word: prospect
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...thus witness a tragic irony: Gravely ill patients fight their doctors not to treat them, not to spend millions on a futile battle that offers them only the prospect of a Pyrrhic victory. Patients, understanding what blind dogma won't recognize, arm themselves with do-not-resuscitate orders and living wills...
With the departures of power hitters Nick DelVecchio '92 (now a hot prospect in the New York Yankees organization), Jim Mrowka '92 and Dan Scanlan '92, Head Coach Leigh Hogan will have to rely on oftneglected plays like the hit and run, the sacrifice and the stolen base more often...
...labor groups who fear the flight of manufacturing jobs to Mexico are understandably disconcerted at the prospect of further unemployment. Indeed the number of jobs projected as being lost approach a quarter of a million. The gains in American auto parts, computers and industrial machinery, however, should more than offset losses in other sectors. It will be a difficult adjustment for the affected sectors, but this should be a particularly opportune time for the administration to implement a strategy for upgrading factors of production. Surely a palatable political solution can be reached...
NAFTA will give the Mexican president the leverage he needs to set fundamental change in motion. Its potential for promoting economic stability, and the prospect of growth can enable these policy objectives to be met. An essential tool is the implementation of the multi-billion dollar Solidarity plan, an important social reform program aimed at eradicating widespread poverty and corruption...
...prospect of inclusion in a free trade area and of reaping its economic benefits would help facilitate the sweeping changes now taking place in the political economies of Latin American and Caribbean countries, thus encouraging widespread democratic changes and a renewed commitment to market-based economics. If we are to accomplish this important task, we cannot allow NAFTA to become a casualty of special interests...