Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground war in the gulf comes closer, so does the prospect of chemical * warfare. If U.S. troops have to fight on a poisoned battlefield, will their gas masks and protective suits keep them safe? The not completely reassuring answer...
...only human nature to wish for the best, to recoil from the prospect of massive cost and suffering. In this instance, optimism was further fueled by vivid memories of the two-month war in the Falklands, the nine-day conquest of Grenada and the 14-day ousting of Manuel Noriega as dictator of Panama. While repeatedly reminding audiences that Iraq is a better entrenched and more highly armed opponent than the loser in any of those conflicts, President Bush also recurrently promised that any battle against Iraq would in no way resemble the "protracted, drawn-out war" in Vietnam...
...sole surviving child or whose closest relatives have been killed in battle. Says Boxer: "This is a volunteer army, but these are not volunteer children. They took no part in any decision that may leave them without parents." The Pentagon says it opposes the measures. But as the prospect of a costly ground war grows, the matter could become an emotional issue on Capitol Hill...
...while such facts make the prospect of defending him unappealing, they don't justify the fact that the university reacted with undue severity. Its decision that Hann was unfit for the university was based on political rather than legitimate disciplinary motives. After all, if every student that got drunk and hollered a bit were expelled for good, Harvard, Yale and Princeton would have to merge for lack of students...
Karin Kootz, who has lived in the Lansdon apartments for two years, said that she was not warmed about future increases when she moved in and now faces the prospect of paying a monthly rent of $833--nearly double the $436 a month to which she had grown accustomed...