Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVERY DAY AT HARVARD, the future leaders of this country's communities take classes together, share rooms together, sit across from one another in the dining hall. Cooped up in the ivory tower, we are not forced to confront the real-life dilemmas of communities in conflict. The prospect of the events of Crown Heights being transferred to Harvard Yard is unimaginable...
...hands of AIPAC. "I'm up against some powerful forces," he said. "They've got something like 1,000 lobbyists on the Hill working the other side of the question. We've got one lonely little guy here doing it." The Bush strategy left Israel with nothing but the prospect of a Pyrrhic victory. Said a Bush adviser: "If he wins, he wins big, because he beats the Israeli lobby. If Shamir wins, he has to put up with Bush's longevity and hard feelings...
Future Presidents who find themselves faced with the awful prospect of sending men and women into battle will be comforted and inspired by his example. It is a pity that such of his predecessors in the White House as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each bearing on his shoulders the burden of a nation in dire peril, should be forced by the Victorian ethic to forgo the solace of a good cry. And then there was General George Washington at Valley Forge, who reportedly cried as seldom as he lied...
...White House aide who carried out the Iran-contra affair, had just been dismissed by a federal judge. As Boren read the bulletin aloud, some of the air went out of the long-awaited hearings on Gates' appointment to head the Central Intelligence Agency. The North dismissal, dimming any prospect of further immunity deals for key Iran-contra players, all but ensured that the Senate may never fully learn what Gates knew about the arms-trading scandal...
...scariest prospect of this new violence is that ordinary American citizens are hiring hit-men to bump off their enemies, their competition and anyone they don't really like...