Word: prospect
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...immigration policy is not emphasizing the influx of the skilled and educated, thus calling into question what has been dubbed the brain gain. Some immigrant groups, especially Hispanics, seem to resist learning English, which in some states has already created a bilingual culture. That raises a deeply worrisome prospect. Is a healthy pluralism giving way to a corrosive separatism, the ideal of tolerance to reverse racism...
Minorities must and will recognize such trends as self-destructive. By and large, the melting pot still works. In the 21st century America will have a new ethnic profile. The prospect of a Hispanic or Asian -- and surely a black -- President is quite plausible. And it is a cheering prospect, provided only that he or she speaks to the nation in English and governs in the tradition of the founders. That tradition has evolved but remains the binding force and genius of America -- an ability to combine self-interest with compromise...
Lately, as I come to terms with the prospect of being bald as a cueball well before I'm old enough to drink, the hair-rub has developed an affectionate twist. Hey hair, how ya' doin'. Just checking to see if you're still there...
What set them off most was a typical Buchanan crack, which wrapped a core of fact in a coating of hyperbole. On McLaughlin, he decried the prospect of military action against Iraq: "There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States." To underscore the point, he wrote that war would result in Americans "humping up that bloody road to Baghdad . . . kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown." In sharp contrast to that litany of normally Christian surnames...
...last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen told Johnson and Taylor that the U.S. would sever relations with Liberia unless a truce was declared. Taylor, head of the 10,000-member National Patriotic Front of Liberia, took the hint and announced a unilateral cease- fire. But the prospect for fruitful negotiations remains dim: Taylor declared that his "government" was the only legitimate one and that he would "fight any attempt to install another one." The truce should at least afford some breathing space for the five-nation West African contingent, which has suffered from a confused chain...