Word: prospect
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Frankly, the prospect of Bok giving the main address is just not very exciting. We have all seen and heard him before. He speaks during Orientation week, hosts a tea during the fall, and occasionally strolls through the Yard...
CONSERVATIVES must also rethink their objectives. By marginalizing gays, society denies them the chance to affirm community values--the very values we claim to uphold. For example, logic would hold that, as champions of faith and fidelity, AALARM should advocate legal gay marriage. The prospect of legal same-sex marriage would, as Andrew Sullivan has brilliantly argued, "traditionalize" gay life by removing one of the many barriers now preventing gays from entering the social mainstream...
...That prospect seems wildly remote. Albania is the poorest country in Europe, + with an average monthly wage of less than $70. Private-car ownership, recently allowed by the government, is virtually unknown. Some 65% of the population lives in the countryside, still shaken by the collectivization of the last remnants of private livestock in 1981. While Albania's population grew at an average annual rate of 2.1% in the past decade, the number of livestock was the same...
...Such a prospect makes leaders in Turkey, Iran, Syria and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union uneasy. It is not that the Kurds spread across these countries are likely to join arms and fight en masse for a united homeland. Tribal loyalties have prevented the Kurds from developing that kind of cohesion. In fact, Kurds have at times betrayed their fellow nationals, as when Iraqi Kurds in the early 1970s conspired against Iranian Kurds in return for Tehran's support for the Iraqi group's fight against Baghdad. But the fear is that if the Kurds in Iraq succeed...
Many Serbs, though hurt by a depression that saw the republic's industrial production drop 35% last year, back Milosevic because they fear the prospect $ of a painful switch to a market-oriented economy. Strong support also comes from the federal army, whose officers enjoy privileges that would probably be jettisoned by a liberal Serbian government...