Word: prospect
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Four years ago I visited the U.S. for the first time. I arrived in New York alone, weighed down with a heavy backpack, with no idea where I was to stay. The prospect of a cheap, insalubrious downtown hostel enticed me, so I headed for Madison Square Garden. Spat out onto the street from the subway, I had no idea where to go; people rushed past and into me without interest; and, of course, I couldn't look at a map. Everyone told me that--never look at a map on the street. Nascent paranoia was restrained as I made...
Moreover, Bush's seemingly pro-business approach treats America as an isolated system. He ignores the fact that Americans are consumers in an international market. They choose to buy Japanese cars because these cars generally get better gas mileage than American ones. For whatever reason, the prospect of this competition has not sufficed to spur American manufacturers to improve. Governmental incentives and/or regulations might really force American auto manufacturers to start improving. It worked in 1978, when Congress set corporate average fuel economy standards that made many auto companies race to bring themselves up to par. In the process, they...
...letter, which TIME has obtained from church sources in the western U.S., Mahony stated that he was "quite alarmed" over the prospect of a "seriously flawed" Mass. The occasional improvements, he said, are overshadowed by "many questionable poor translations and outright changes in meaning." He charged that the anonymous revisers were supposed to simply re- translate the Latin but strayed "far beyond" their mandate by altering rubrics and even theology...
...might be the prospect of political change in the wind that helps make this new folk sound so bracing. "It's the perfect music for these times," as Neil Young says. Or maybe it's the prevailing staleness of pop and the relentless assaults of rap. In any case, there is as much to celebrate in the sudden multiplicity of folk talent as there was at the Garden. Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam performed a ferocious version of Masters of War that demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk...
...question is, if this year's improvement does turn out to be a one-year blip, then what happens next year? If the deficit grows back to nearly $10 million, Knowles may face the prospect of making truly draconian cuts...