Word: prospect
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Other thinkers have listed football--and the Yale Game--with what William James called "the moral equivalents of war," the safe ways of working off man's aggressive tendencies. Perhaps football is a moral equivalent which will someday save us all, but even this happy prospect cannot account for the standees on the stadium roof and the 10,000 extra olives at the Ritz...
...coast to coast" drive. And not just in America, but from Bali to the Bahamas, where many kids wear his picture on their chests. Hundreds in Paris were calling out for "Ma-JEEK" when he went to play in France last month, and everyone was preparing for the unprecedented prospect of seeing him, the consummate professional, bring an amateur's enthusiasm to the 1992 Olympics...
...addition to the verbal attacks, women who speak up about sexual harassment also face the prospect of losing their jobs, the professors...
...matter how good a Duke victory would look for the Democrats, one thing is clear: the prospect of Governor David Duke would be a terrible thing for Louisiana. A Duke-run statehouse in New Orleans would threaten rights of minorities and encourage racism...
With little prospect that any coalition can form a durable majority, President Lech Walesa proposed doubling his duties by becoming his own Prime Minister. Though such an arrangement seemed to flout the spirit of Poland's constitution, no one else appeared eager to take on the job of leading the country's painful reconstruction. Walesa's bold but troubling suggestion, wisecracked one critic, at least offered the possibility of a government "able to count on the full loyalty of the President." But whoever winds up with the job has little hope of finding a painless route to economic reform...