Word: prospect
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...natural-gas pipelines pleased the gas companies but also promised increased use of this relatively clean energy source. Even the nuke- licensing provisions are less threatening than they seem: although it would take fewer steps to get a nuclear power plant licensed, antinuclear sentiment still runs strong, and the prospect of any new plants in the foreseeable future...
...paying for it," says Foa. Last week 2,000 Bosnians who had fled to Belgrade were packed off by the Red Cross to Kosovo. These people may soon be on the move again: the territory's predominant Albanian population recently voted to secede from Serbia, raising the prospect of armed conflict there next...
...process, to the institution of the presidency, to the institution of the Congress. Yet I don't think the public is ready to give the entire government to one party. They like divided government. They don't trust either political party. I am frightened by the prospect of four more years of gridlock if we have four more years of a Republican President and a Democratic Congress...
Bankers and businessmen applaud the new overtures. But Swiss farmers, whose subsidies are considerably higher than those of the E.C., find the prospect of losing income frightening. And in a country that currently does not have a sales tax, the E.C.'s proposed 15% value-added tax is not popular. But by joining the E.C., the Swiss stand to gain more than they would have by staying out in the cold...
...even with greater industrial environmental consciousness, says Faulkner, "there could clearly be no prospect for sustainable development in either the developed or the developing world without government incentives." The nations that wield those carrots and sticks most skillfully will be the leaders of the new green revolution, and their industries will eventually be the ones to profit from...