Word: prospect
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...That prospect is excruciating for a party long cursed by fatally flawed standard bearers. "The idea that a misplaced love letter could keep us out of the White House for another four years makes me ill," says a Democratic fund raiser in Chicago. Clinton's defenders take comfort in the fact that their candidate has survived months of scrutiny by the press and voters. "He's got presidential stature, and he's convinced a lot of people that he can win," says Ed Scribner, president of the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. "When he started out, there were some problems with...
...Terrified at the prospect of facing an angry electorate in November amid charges of a cover-up, Democrats and Republicans alike voted last week to come clean. The identities of all 355 check floaters will not be made public until next month, but the 24 most flagrant offenders will be outed next week. According to the the House ethics committee, these members "repeatedly and routinely" abused the overdraft privilege by writing checks that exceeded the amount of their next month's salary at least eight times within the 39-month period under investigation. One member kited 996 checks totaling...
...time may not be too distant when both men will choose to blur those differences. Some Democratic insiders are already starting to speculate about a Clinton-Tsongas ticket (or, less likely, a Tsongas-Clinton ticket). The prospect was touched upon briefly, if noncommittally, by the candidates themselves near the end of the TIME session. It is still too early for ticket talk. Even so, the pair debating seriously last week -- as opposed to the caricatures in campaign commercials -- could make a team that would pose a stiff challenge to the Bush-Quayle slate...
Freshman Jamie Irving looms as an unproven but intiguing prospect: He is ambidexterous...
Rachel E. Cohen '94, a member of Students for Choice, opened the first portion of the debate by stressing theimportance of upholding Roe v. Wade. Shewarned of the "frightening prospect" of illegalabortions...