Word: prospect
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Even if Iraq were to annex Saudi Arabia, a dubious prospect at best, Hussein certainly would not ruin the world economy. Oil sales are a way of getting hard currency, which is what Saddam Hussein wants (to finance Iraq's debt). He certainly wants to sell oil, and excessive oil prices would force petroleum importers to tap other sources of energy, ruining the Iraqi oil economy...
...prospect of Saddam Hussein retaining his vast arsenal and direct access to a majority of the world's oil reserves is fraught with even greater danger, and the consequences of not taking action now will likely be far more catastrophic...
...volunteers for the trip back to Albania and more refugees expected in the months to come, Mitsotakis scheduled a trip to Tirana. He will be the first Western leader to visit since Albania withdrew into isolation at the end of World War II. Athens is aghast at the prospect of accommodating a good part of Albania's estimated 400,000 ethnic Greeks, especially when it believes that Tirana is encouraging the flight to wriggle through political difficulties...
...have been rising sharply for bridge and highway maintenance, prison construction and new schoolrooms for the second wave of the baby boom. The stiffest increases have been in health-care costs. Medicaid spending by states rose 18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone. Thus many of them are struggling with the prospect of big budget cuts and higher taxes, or drawing on reserves. "It's going to be batten down the hatches," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors' Association. "The big question is how deep this recession is going...
...been one who has been convinced that sanctions alone would bring him to his senses." On the same day that Webster spoke before the House Armed Services Committee, Secretary of State James Baker appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to announce that he was "very pessimistic" about the prospect that sanctions alone would work...