Word: prospect
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...college president who is also a top contender for Harvard's presidency. Just ask the folks at The Dartmouth Review, the school's notorious right-wing magazine and troublemaker. Review members, who have clashed with Freedman many times in recent years, say they are particularly excited at the prospect of Freedman's departure. "Please take him," said Ben Shim, the Review's president...
...vote closed at 6 p.m., the M.P.s gathered in the House of Commons' lobby and awaited the result: Major got 185 votes, Heseltine 131, Hurd 56. As it became clear that Major had missed a majority by only two votes, a large groan of frustration rose up. The prospect of a third ballot was too much to bear after the tension-filled days of the previous three weeks...
Containment is possible, at least theoretically. If Saddam pulls out peacefully, the U.S. and its allies can continue the embargo on military shipments to Iraq and perhaps create a regional security structure. But the Saudis recoil at the prospect of an enduring foreign-troop presence on their soil, even for the purpose of defending their kingdom, and a new region-wide defense pact is easier to conjure than to craft. The Kuwaitis would welcome an American presence indefinitely, but even they would prefer to avoid the complications that would invariably attend an open-ended effort to keep Saddam at home...
...editorial "The Lone Ranger" on December 5 accuses President Bush of violating the Constitution by not getting formal Congressional approval for his policies in the Persian Gulf. This accusation both lacks legal grounding and harms the prospect of achieving our goal of a peaceful resolution of this conflict...
...much to ask? With the lives of half a million Americans at risk and the prospect of a long-term bloody military entanglement on the horizon, how can a United States Senator contend that a meeting with the executive branch is too much to ask? The time for congressional input is now--before war breaks out and the president's emergency powers give him ultimate latitude in determining day-to-day foreign policy. If Congress wants to play a role the United States' Persian Gulf policy, it must act immediately...