Word: prospect
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Thatcher remains alone in her unyielding hostility to the very concept of a supranational Europe. She was pushed into joining the EMS by a series of compelling domestic reasons, not least the prospect of an election within the next year and a half. The European monetary link, for example, will make it easier to reduce Britain's double-digit inflation rate. Sterling, already a petrocurrency at a time of soaring oil prices, will become even stronger. Pressure on Thatcher intensified also from other European capitals as the process of German unification reached its climax this month. In effect, Britain...
Finding an overseas job--or more accurately in many cases, creating one--can be an easy prospect or a decidedly difficult one, depending on where you want to go and what you want to do. A temporary summer job in a foreign city can be a relatively easy thing to arrange. There is, however, little entry-level recruiting conducted in the U.S. for international jobs. If you really want to work abroad, it's generally up to you to make it happen...
...that played on white resentment over affirmative action and welfare. Though polls gave Johnston about half the vote in the Oct. 6 primary, they also showed Bagert, a state senator, badly trailing Duke. That opened up the possibility of a Nov. 6 runoff between the two front runners. The prospect of the former Klansman becoming the G.O.P.'s standard-bearer made state and national party leaders so unhappy that eight Republican Senators declared their support for Johnston. Then Bagert made the ultimate sacrifice: he withdrew from the race. The bipartisan blocking maneuver seemed to be paying off. Early returns gave...
...Bahraini was expressing a point of view echoed elsewhere in the Arab world. As war in the gulf looks ever more probable, the uneasiness and frustration of ordinary citizens are beginning to bubble over. The looming prospect of battle has sobered some of the more exuberant supporters of Saddam Hussein's bold defiance of the West, yet in certain quarters -- especially in Jordan, Yemen, the Sudan and the Maghreb -- his following remains strong...
...leftist might blame "imperialism"; a right-winger would call our problem "internationalism." But an anthropologist, taking the long view, might | say this is just what warriors do. Intoxicated by their own drumbeats and war songs, fascinated by the glint of steel and the prospect of blood, they will go forth, time and again...