Word: prospect
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Harvard downed the Elis, 8-6, and with wetheads boarded the bus home to face midterms,Halloween and the unusual prospect of failing toqualify for the Eastern championships...
...younger, more entrepreneurial crew / than other GM divisions. The average age of a Saturn worker is 38, vs. 43 for the whole company. Saturn's work force is 20% female, slightly higher than the portion at GM as a whole. Many workers say they were drawn by the prospect that Saturn could compete on an equal footing. "The thing that most interested me was the idea that we could beat the Japanese. That's why I came here," says James Archibald, 34, a line worker in body fabrication, who pulled up stakes in Alabama to take his chances at Saturn...
Once the budget agreement is safely tucked away, probably this week, the lawmakers will be free to go home and schmooze with their constituents -- but given the mood in the land, they may dread the prospect. "Look, you tell me, when is the last time you saw a Senator walk into a bar to sit down and talk with the working people?" asks Frank Gasparik, a California salesman and part-time songwriter. "Never. They're probably afraid somebody'd hit them with a bar stool." A reasonable fear, if pollsters are right about the level of voter disgust with...
Most reassuring of all, however, is the prospect that the German economy will, as never before, take over the leading role in Europe because of a huge burst of investment and energy that will go into the reconstruction of eastern Germany and the rest of Eastern Europe. The German economy is expected to grow by 3% next year. "At a time when a slowdown is taking place among many industrialized countries," said Pohl last week, "united Germany's economic dynamism is acting as a locomotive for the world economy." Every country is likely to benefit from the huge demand...
...P.L.O. objected bitterly to the final wording of the resolution, but for the moment the compromise had spared the alliance against Saddam from a major rift. Even Washington's Western allies on the Council were prepared to accept Yemen's original draft and were concerned by the prospect of an American veto. As the Arab states saw it, the issue was whether there was one international law for Arab governments and another for non-Arabs. "This time the world community must prove that principles (such as those used to justify collective action against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) are indivisible...