Word: prospect
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When Yeltsin became president of Russia last June, he carried most of the republic's cities by large majorities, but he did not fare so well in rural areas, where resistance to change remains strong. In Leshkovo, a village about 35 miles northeast of Moscow, the prospect of Yeltsin's wresting control of Russia from the shattered central government did not impress Nikolai Petrovich, a 67-year-old pensioner, whose refusal to give his last name betrayed a fear of contact with foreigners rarely found nowadays in urban areas...
...putsch was ROBERT STRAUSS, the Democratic power broker whose fondness for creature comforts made him an unlikely ambassador to the Soviet Union. "I'm not sure I'm the right guy for the job," confessed Strauss in the early hours of the crisis. But as he thought about the prospect of taking on the hard-liners, Strauss warmed to the challenge. "I guess I could tell those motherf--- sons of bitches off," he concluded...
Then Danny brings home Lucy Dean, whom he met at work when she arrived at his window to mail a bowling ball and other possessions to her former husband, now living in Wyoming. The prospect of a daughter-in-law who is both a divorcee and the mother of two small children, Agatha and Thomas, does not thrill the elder Bedloes, but a courtship of only a few weeks is followed by a wedding and then, seven months later, the birth of an obviously full-term baby girl. Ian does not believe the child is Danny's; roped into baby...
...claims office where she had been a clerk for nearly 15 years. The double whammy has forced their son Marley Jr. to drop out of college and the Kendalls to move from their cherished lakeside home near the town of Ely to the Sunbelt to look for jobs. The prospect of uprooting is especially painful, Frances says, "when you've worked all your life and you want something for your later years...
...almost 400 members of the Central Committee, once one of the country's most powerful institutions, suddenly faced the prospect of losing their jobs as well as the privileges -- from dachas to chauffeur-driven sedans -- that so infuriated the average Soviet worker. Gorbachev's decision, however, did more than rip the heart out of the once monolithic party. His move signaled that the Communist Party's influence over the country's affairs was finished once and for all, its structure shattered and its 15 million members across the country forced to reshape their political allegiances...