Word: prospect
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With Giardi on the sideline, Restic had to look to his bench, a prospect he did not relish...
...Soviet Jews happy at the prospect of foundering in another bureaucratized, militarized, socialistic economy. They don't just need places to live -- they need meaningful, productive jobs. Even if they bring nothing but what they can carry in two suitcases, they are rich in education, skill and ambition. Already there are enough doctors for a clinic on every corner, enough musicians for a string quartet in every apartment building and enough engineers and computer programmers for a booming, high-tech, export-oriented manufacturing sector on the order of Taiwan's or Singapore...
Bush calculates, no doubt correctly, that Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are every bit as frightened of that prospect as he is, especially in the wake of the aborted coup in August...
...promising edge: its contention that the world has changed so fundamentally that military expenditures should be redirected to home-front priorities. In the short term -- and perhaps for as long as a decade or more -- Bush's plan might actually inflate defense spending. Nevertheless, as a political matter, the prospect of moving toward a de-nuked world is probably something most people would gladly pay for, and it seems reasonable to assume that a peace dividend will eventually be realized. In any event, none of those who would replace Bush have the stature to credibly challenge the course...
This rain on the Columbus parade is nothing, though, compared with the storm of outrage that the prospect of quincentennial partying has unleashed among the anti-Columbians. "Our celebration is to oppose," says Evaristo Nugkuag, a member of the Aguaruna people, who is president of the Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples' Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), an umbrella group in Lima, Peru. On Oct. 7, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, about 1,000 members of COICA and other groups, representing 24 countries in the Western Hemisphere, will gather at a "Continental Encounter" meeting. One of the purposes is to determine...