Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrow nationalism would be bound to diminish further France's influence as one of the five countries with veto power on the United Nations Security Council and as a leader in integration of the European Community. And whatever happens to Le Pen, that influence is already threatened by the prospect of a period during which the country is increasingly absorbed in internal wrangling...
Indeed, for many of us who had never before faced the prospect of living away from home, choosing roommates and a place to live represented an act of total independence, perhaps unprecedented in our lives...
...play, except for the instance when Hally spits in Sam's face. "I want to hurt him," moans Sam. When Willie tries to calm him, Sam asks him: "What if it were you?" Willie responds, "If he had spit on me like I was a dog?", seemingly considering this prospect for the first time. "I would like to hit him. I would like to hit him hard...
...same can be said for the growing class of undereducated white youth, a threatening prospect considering how cloudy and volatile are the thoughts and feelings Terkel assembles. This is understandable. Race itself is an irrational subject, which may be "the American obsession" but is not an American invention. The 3,000-year-old Rig-Veda tells of the Aryan god Indra's hatred for the black-skinned anasya. Han dynasty historians (right for the wrong reasons) believed yellow-haired, green-eyed people evolved from primates. The Babylonian Talmud attributes the blackness of Ham's descendants to Jehovah's curse...
Nevertheless, some of the most persistent forecasts of doom have so far not come true, and others keep being recalled, like defective cars. So our Cassandras have to try harder. The prospect of AIDS unchecked gets more attention than the ever growing life expectancy, and gene technology suggests nefarious experiments with life itself as much as dramatic new ways of preventing disease. We have come to distrust science. The public even seems bored with space travel, although in hindsight it may prove to be, along with the computer, the most important achievement of our century...