Word: prospect
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...distant future, consumers face the prospect that a computer somewhere will compile records about every place they go and everything they purchase," says Democrat Bob Wise of West Virginia, who heads the House subcommittee that oversees the government's use of data. "I'm not sure this is the vision of the future that will make Americans comfortable...
...callers. Some businesses use a commercial version of Caller I.D. that quietly displays the phone number of people who inquire about products, investments or insurance. The numbers can then be used to obtain other information about individual customers from consumer data bases. Privacy activists are also worried that the prospect of having phone numbers revealed will discourage anonymous police tipsters and callers to telephone hot lines that serve drug abusers, runaways and other people in trouble. Says Janlori Goldman of the A.C.L.U.: "The danger of Caller I.D. is that people lose control over when and to whom to give their...
...introducing glasnost, Gorbachev chose to lead his nation into the untidy, antagonistic, uncomfortable, but proud and encouraging prospect of open horizons. He did not make the Soviets lose the Cold War. He ended it. He gave his country the hope of an exciting new society--a more just and more efficient one--that would take its rightful place in the family of nations it fled...
Many conservationists believe the prospect of lost opportunities in the global marketplace will eventually persuade the Bush Administration to be more | forthcoming. But what will emerge from the Rio deliberations is still very much up in the air. Barbara Bramble, an official at the National Wildlife Federation, argues that even if the Earth Summit produces toothless principles, it will still have the effect of shaping environmental agendas for everybody, from the U.N. to ordinary citizens groups. The question is whether the bureaucratic timetable and that of the biosphere will match...
...matter how grim the prospect for mining jobs, many of Logan County's young men still believe there will be a mining career for them. The Ralph R. / Willis Vocational Training Center is one of the county's best hopes for teaching its young that there is more to the world than coal. But the most popular courses in the school are those on mining. One is taught by David Thompson, 33, who went into the mines at 18. "The only thing I could see was dollar signs," he recalls. For the next eight years...