Word: prospect
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...rest of her colleagues. In light of the back-room battles that shook the Conservative Party and the hypocritical talk about loyalty and harmony, Thatcher's written statement was a model of clarity: "Having consulted widely among colleagues, I have concluded that the unity of the party and the prospect of victory in a general election would be better served if I stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for leadership...
...sentiment among voters. The poor were as angry as the middle-class homeowners who found poll-tax bills several times higher than the previous property taxes. In various ways, the candidates made clear they were ready to make necessary changes. Foreign investment may grow even faster, encouraged by the prospect that with a new Conservative government joining the movement toward a united Europe, Britain would benefit more from the worldwide recovery predicted...
...worry for Western Europe is not just that the reforms will fail and the region will slip into anarchy and chaos," says Karsten Voigt of Germany's Social Democratic Party. "Even if reforms succeed, it will mean thousands of factories closed down and millions out of work." The prospect is that a stream of political escapees will turn into a flood of economic refugees...
...side of the angels," he says. "We all took a deep breath when the Berlin Wall fell. But then we turned to other things." Among them is whether the Vile Body has any future in a city teetering on the brink of terminal decay. It's not a prospect that cheers the salon regulars. New York may be a city under enemy (read: tired old liberal) aegis. But it is also the center of a vernacular culture that makes the U.S., in Johnston's sardonic phrase, "the most amusing place to live in the history of the planet." And there...
Ironically, Bo had seemed an unlikely prospect for a criminal career. While his two brothers, Tony and Darron, ran with tough gangs and had arrest records, he avoided violence. Overweight and suffering from asthma, Bo was a well-liked teenager who took school seriously. He jumped at the chance to ride buses to a predominantly white high school in Sepulveda. He was given a room by a white family so he would be close to his new school and able to take the grocery job nearby. Unlike most of his friends, he managed to graduate from high school...