Word: prospect
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...conception on the part of many people that voter registration and the issues around it are basically passe, that whatever might have been problems have been resolved," he says. "That perception, unfortunately, is incorrect. We are no longer subjected to fire hoses and dogs and physical intimidation and the prospect of murder in our attempts to exercise the franchise, but nonetheless there are still barriers...
...induce miscarriage by taking quinine pills. She ruled out a cheap illegal abortion because a girlfriend bled to death after getting one. "I know other girls who've done different things," she says. "Jumped off the top of dressers or provoked their boyfriends to jump on them." But the prospect of trying to support yet another child made her sick with worry. "My hair started coming out," she says. After many anxious days, she finally got an abortion last week after she was able to borrow the money...
...demand the release of Texas POWS. Our then Governor, known to all as POP Smith, for Poor Ol' Preston, was intellectually challenged by the task of getting from the Mansion to the Capitol every day. You could almost hear the entire legislature gulp at the mind-boggling prospect of POP Smith debating the Viet Cong...
Despite his numerous academic commitment, George said he was not worried about the prospect of having to juggle research and his three-year appointment as a tutor "I'll try tomanage it as I go," he said...
Personally, I'm bullish on America. For all our problems -- which are considerable, to put it mildly -- we've become leaner and meaner, and our quality has improved. Exports are up. Technology races along. And the flip side of the real estate collapse is the prospect of low rents -- bad for landlords and lenders, good for business and consumers. Hopeful signs...