Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suffer from the shakes. New polls showed that most Americans, including a majority of Republicans, harbor deep doubts about Quayle. This public sentiment is echoed, with refinements, by senior White House officials and other top Republicans, most of whom concede privately that they are highly uncomfortable with the prospect of Quayle's replacing Bush. Their consensus is that Quayle, while harder working and more capable than his public image suggests, will never develop the broad grasp of issues or the commanding presence to serve as an effective Chief Executive...
...mission in self-defeating rhetoric. Stung by those who say he ended the gulf war too soon (which is arguable) and that he moved to aid the hapless Kurds too late after inciting them to overthrow Saddam (which isn't), the President is now bothered about the prospect of U.S. troops getting "bogged down" in a "further military" involvement, a "permanent presence" -- a "quagmire...
...daughter, Elsa Arnett '89, a former Crimson editor, expressed happiness about the prospect of her father speaking at the Law School, adding that he will spend the next two weeks in New Zealand. "They are preparing a meeting with the cabinet and a parade...
...single brick is removed from the building, the property will be returned to the city of Cambridge. What if there's a little accident during the transfer of books? No doubt Cambridge would be happy to accept the vacated building. But there is an even more threatening prospect: Once the contract is broken, would Mrs. Widener's provision for our daily ice cream be forgotten...
Hardly the stuff of command councils or the KGB, Clark's letter reads more like the windy babble of a high school principal. (Only an administrator would employ circumlocutory phrases like "failed to exhibit.") Most people would have appreciated the warning, but not the CCR. The mere prospect that its members would be held accountable for their actions was enough to send everyone into a frightened panic...