Word: prospect
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Amid all this disappointment came yet another prospect for survival. CSX Corp., parent of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, took an interest in Otisca as a possible source of fuel for a pilot cogeneration plant it was planning at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. As the nation's largest transporter of coal, CSX had an interest in promoting its use and export. Engineer Mack Shelor, an executive with CSX's energy resources and logistics division, learned through some contacts that Otisca was the only firm capable of producing a coal-based liquid fuel that would meet the specifications...
...Virginia Electric & Power, the local utility. Even if they don't get federal assistance, Shelor hopes to build the Greenbrier plant. Alternatively, he and Smith are discussing a deal that would use coal wastes to make Otisca Fuel as a direct substitute for No. 6 fuel oil. The prospect of making money the old-fashioned way, by earning it through the sale of cogenerated power to a utility, has given CSX reason to proceed...
Beginning college anew would be a hassle. I thought about leaving, but the prospect of filling out more applications and writing a bunch of dippy essays didn't thrill me. What's more, I felt like I would be abandoning my friends...
...Slovak leader's waffling reflects his electorate's ambiguous feelings. While many Slovaks resent the power of Prague and in particular Klaus' hard- nosed market policies, most did not want an outright split. The prospect of a separate Slovakian budget for 1993 could give form to those doubts: only 13% of last year's foreign investment to Czechoslovakia went to Slovakia, where unemployment has burgeoned to almost...
...Labor and the Likud sharing power, as they have already done twice in the past, after tight elections in 1984 and 1988. With Labor likely to be the larger grouping, Rabin may replace Shamir as Prime Minister. But the two men's policies are so similar that such a prospect elicits little excitement. No wonder many voters are more interested in knowing whether Victoria, the Caracas fashion mogul, will discover that her new model, Crystal, is actually the daughter she conceived with a priest-in-training and gave up for adoption long...