Word: prospect
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Just six months ago, it was hard to imagine anything much worse than the prospect of Saddam Hussein and his million-man army in control of Kuwait and one-fifth of the world's oil reserves. But an even more frightening specter has since emerged: a wounded and vengeful Saddam with a smaller army whose best punch is an atom bomb...
Though gratified by the sudden openness, Western officials were stunned by the breadth of the Iraqi enrichment effort, and suspected that Saddam's disclosure only hinted at his actual nuclear capability. Indeed, the intelligence failure is almost as frightening as the prospect of Saddam's bomb. After Israeli jets destroyed Iraq's Osirak research reactor in 1981, Baghdad embarked headlong on a secret enrichment program that relied on an old-fashioned method called electromagnetic isotope separation. Used by Manhattan Project scientists in the 1940s, the technology is considered so obsolete that it is discussed openly in scientific literature...
...provoked flare-ups, notably at Stanford University, which in 1988 decided to revamp its first-year course, Western Culture, in response to critical pressure. Some students and faculty members at the elite, ethnically diverse institution had complained that the course syllabus offered only the writings of white males. The prospect of one or more of these -- Plato? Shakespeare? -- being kicked out to make room for women and minorities caught traditionalists' attention, as did a demonstration at which students chanted "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Culture's got to go!" In the end, Stanford excised no one from the reading list...
...nation how he did it. He won standing ovations in Congress, cheers along parade routes and pleas to run for office. What more is left for General Norman Schwarzkopf than that final ratification of modern-day success, the best-selling autobiography? For months publishers have been salivating at the prospect of putting Schwarzkopf's life and thoughts between covers. Now Bantam Books has won the right to publish his memoirs, for a hefty price: more than $5 million for worldwide rights, probably the most ever paid for a nonfiction work...
...those laws could provide the court with an opportunity to overturn Roe -- a prospect that seemed nearer than ever after last month's decision in Rust v. Sullivan. In that case, by a 5-to-4 vote in which Souter sided with the conservatives, the court ruled that doctors, nurses and other care providers at clinics that accept federal funds cannot even mention abortion to their patients. "I've never had much hope for this court," says Colleen O'Connor, public-education director for the A.C.L.U. "But I was never as dispirited as when it came down with the Rust...