Word: prospect
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Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the movie is its treatment of interracial relationships. Candyman was killed because he violated the taboos of a racist society. But even in 1992 he has problems wooing Helen. In the final moments of the movie, Candyman offers Helen the prospect of immortal partnership with him and a baby he kidnapped from the projects...
...will be completely reimbursed for sending their children to private schools, thereby allowing families to bypass the incompetent state-controlled educational factory. Monday's Wall Street Journal aptly notes that "a parent in Moscow will have more freedom to select a good school than most parents in America." This prospect is extremely embarassing...
Many guards interviewed this week were optimistic about the prospect for improving the training program and standards for supervisors...
...modest 22-point decline for the day. The Dow finished the week down 64 points, at 3136.58, a 240-point decline since mid-September. Many analysts attribute the pessimism to a host of misgivings, including uncertainties about the outcome of the presidential election. Most worrisome has been the prospect of an extremely sluggish economic recovery and the apparent decision by the Federal Reserve Board not to cut interest rates any further. "The market is suffering from a bad case of high anxiety due to all the uncertainty," says Donald Straszheim, chief economist at Merrill Lynch. "After all," he quips...
Such questions implicitly challenge the notion of progress, which is usually taken to mean there is no such thing as enough. The prospect of a world in which people voluntarily agree to set limits on their acquisitive appetite bears little resemblance to what is conventionally understood as progress. But then neither does the prospect of a world in which unparalleled affluence coexists with frightful depths of misery and squalor...