Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory -- Spassky resigned after making his 49th move -- displayed some tentativeness coupled with sound, patient, relentless strategy; there was nothing particularly brilliant about Fischer's game, but nothing reckless or stupid either. The rules of this exhibition -- adapted to Fischer's specifications -- seem to reward circumspect strategy, since the prospect of saving a risky mistake by playing to draw afterward has been rendered unprofitable. When Fischer and Spassky met in 1972, draws gave each player one-half point toward the victory total. This time, ties do not count, and the winner will be the first to pick off 10 victories...
Unfortunately, that is not the way military planning actually is being done by either the Administration or its challengers. For Bush, as for Clinton and most members of Congress, the prospect of lost jobs, closed bases and canceled contracts makes it politically risky to propose the really substantial changes that are needed -- especially with unemployment running in excess...
...Saddam was ruthlessly crushing their rebellion in the south, Western leaders stood by and did nothing. At the time, they argued plausibly if heartlessly that an allied intervention risked both a military quagmire and an unstable partition of Iraq that could extend Iran's influence in the region. Neither prospect has disappeared. With Bush in Houston trying to reinvigorate his political fortunes, it was impossible to escape cynical questions about what was for real -- and what was for political effect. No more convincing was the sudden European eagerness to provide air protection to Iraqi Muslims solely on humanitarian grounds; Europeans...
...premise is almost high concept. A young writer (Fabrice Luchini) has just been jilted. A friend proposes that, as a delicious act of revenge on all women, the fellow should choose a prospect (Judith Henry), seduce her, then leave her and write a best seller about his experience. But Christian Vincent's LA DISCRETE is no frivolous American sex comedy; it is French, in the best sense of the word. With breathless poise, the script by Vincent and Jean-Pierre Ronssin juggles cruelty and gaiety, revealing modern man as a ruthless appraiser auditioning women for his imaginary harem. Hollywood wouldn...
...hardly affecting the Republican vote." Paradoxically, the very decision they hated -- Roe v. Wade -- gave these political operatives the cover they needed: so long as that ruling was in effect, Republicans could give lip service to a "right to life" without facing immediate consequences. But with Roe endangered, the prospect of legislatures' having to debate the whole matter over again is daunting. The preference for choice, even among those opposed to abortion, is clear in the polls. Young Republicans do not have to be libertarians to want government kept out of the decisions women make about their pregnancies...