Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after four glorious years wearing number 29, Vuke has emerged as one of the best players in college hockey. Many people, including players on the Harvard team, consider him to be the best of his prominent classmates and the most legitimate NHL prospect on the Crimson squad...
...Texas, border arrests were down as much as 40%, compared with the same month a year ago. Arrests in Yuma, Ariz., decreased 30%. Immigration officials say Mexico is rife with rumors that the U.S. government is drafting illegal aliens and shipping them off to fight in the war. The prospect of combat hasn't deterred some Mexican nationals already living in the U.S., however, from trying to join the military. Army recruiters contend the aliens attempt to enlist, mistakenly believing they can obtain citizenship...
...prospect of a still powerful Iraq would be far less worrisome if Saddam were not at the helm. His continuation in power would be a great disappointment to the allies. It is conceivable that a surrender, however artfully packaged, would leave Saddam vulnerable to a coup. The euphoria in Baghdad that initially greeted reports of the pullout offer suggests a high level of public anxiety over the war. To have been subjected to such horrific bombings and wind up with nothing to show for it might be too much for some Iraqis. But the decisive question is whether it would...
...ground soldiers of Operation Desert Storm, the shortest road home from Saudi Arabia cuts through Kuwait. But the prospect of traveling along it fills the grunts with dread...
Critics say Jewett's system of "non-ordered choice" threatens to neutralize the distinctive characters of certain houses (Eliot's Heimert has been a strong opponent of limited choice). But the drawbacks of non-ordered choice seem minimal when compared with the prospect of a totally-randomized house assignment system--a plan which Jewett has said he personally favors...