Word: prospect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lasting solution to excessive energy consumption in dormitories must introduce market incentives. A lasting solution must get people in the habit of conserving scarce energy with the prospect of saving scarce pocket money. A lasting solution requires that Harvard make students pay for excessive use of electricity...
...persuaded," said Heseltine, "that I have a better prospect now than Mrs. Thatcher of leading the Conservative Party into a fourth election victory." The party's 372 Members of Parliament were to indicate in a secret ballot this week whether they agreed with him. Bookmakers were offering 2-to-1 odds on Thatcher to retain her position as leader of the ruling party and thus as Prime Minister. To win outright, she must receive an overall majority plus 15% more votes than any other candidate. To force a second ballot next week, Heseltine has to garner at least...
...recruits from the lower-middle range of the economic scale, regardless of their race. Blacks and other minorities also make up a disproportionate share of the ranks, especially in the Army, the branch of the service likely to face the heaviest casualties in a protracted ground war. Thus the prospect of fighting is causing the fairness question, which dominated the congressional debate on taxes last month, to return in a new form: Will the U.S. be asking its poor and working classes to do most of its fighting and dying...
...long as the U.S. was involved in relatively small operations with few casualties, like the invasions of Grenada and Panama, it did not seem to matter much that the armed forces were an imperfect mirror of society. The prospect of sizable bloodshed in the gulf, however, has led some to ask whether the current imbalance makes it too easy for the President and Congress to send forces into battle. "If the U.S. military were truly representative of the country, you would have people going through the roof right now," said former Navy Secretary James Webb two weeks...
...prospect of seeking an education abroad is effectively limited to the the members of the upwardly mobile, neocolonialist elite, a group that is quite unrepresentative of the society as a whole...