Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While neither of the Sunday quakes hit along the San Andreas Fault, where experts believe the Big One will eventually strike, both were on faults that intersect it. That could put more pressure on the San Andreas and hasten the arrival of a mega-quake -- a devastating prospect, since the San Andreas runs through the populous Los Angeles basin...
...small rain-forest animals called duikers. These deerlike creatures make the noise in the throes of giving birth, and Pygmies imitate it because other duikers come running when they hear the call. This time, however, the braying attracts a large band of chimpanzees, drawn by the prospect of dining on vulnerable duikers. For a moment I feel the shiver of being hunted...
...desire to visit this extraordinary place was tempered not so much by the prospect of hardship as by the feeling that perhaps the Ndoki should be left alone. It has been protected for millenniums by its inaccessibility. Should there not be somewhere on earth where nature can be safe from the heavy hand of humanity? Journalists, explorers and scientists can inadvertently set in motion the destruction of the places they are trying to protect...
There are some other distant prospects. Poland, a country rich in dirty coal, sent a team to Syracuse in February to explore a deal with Otisca. They took a lot of notes and seemed interested, says Smith, but have yet to follow up. A representative of Pakistan has made inquiries. Markets in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have a lot of potential but not much prospect of immediate payoff. For Smith, who hasn't had a paycheck in two years, that's important...
...this reduced age, people are discombobulated by the prospect of fussing with a masterwork such as the Guggenheim. It is, after all, the greatest American architect's best-known building. And yet the Guggenheim's very singularity has always made it a wretched place to show pictures: the narrow ramp that hugs the inside wall has been the museum's main exhibition space...