Word: prospect
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...McCarthy's actual release was a something-for-nothing swap that for the first time pointed tantalizingly toward the prospect of a comprehensive resolution. McCarthy informed the world that Terry Waite, the British envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury who disappeared Jan. 20, 1987, and was rumored to have died, was alive and well. Islamic Jihad also sent a message that "health and living conditions are good" for the remaining captives. While Islamic Jihad holds only some of the hostages, its message, which appeared to be authoritative, suggested that the group is coordinating a complex negotiation for the release...
...onetime insurance salesman scribbles on, apparently undaunted by the prospect of world peace, although Jack Ryan, Clancy's doughty, repeat- performance hero and deputy director of the CIA, admits to a few worries: "Look, I'm not one of those right-wing idiots who moan for a return to the Cold War, but then, at least, the Russians were predictable...
Like many, Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, believes that PCR will revolutionize everything from medicine and biology to anthropology and history. It is a prospect he finds both exhilarating and disturbing. Technically, it would be possible, by examining DNA samples from the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and those of his slave Sally Hemings, to determine once and for all whether Jefferson, as rumored, fathered some of Hemings' children. Would this be an appropriate use of the new technology? "Let me put it this way," says Caplan. "Because...
...predicts that "by the year 2000, the number of working women will rise to 75%. We will see full-day programs for children from the age of three." It will take thousands of new preschools to meet that demand, and many more thousands of new teachers and assistants. The prospect is inviting and daunting: the millennium is only nine years away...
...case nightmares of an old nemesis reborn. The two times in modern history when Germans ventured to consolidate -- under Bismarck and under Hitler -- France was eclipsed and conquered. Apprehensions today do not envisage anything so dire as a panzer plunge through the Ardennes, but many French wince at the prospect of an expanded Federal Republic overmastering them with its money, industry and technology...