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Word: prospect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those prices, the upscale shops must hope to avoid a slump in Christmas sales that some experts say could reduce business up to 4%. But that prospect has not daunted two Japanese investment firms that in June agreed to acquire a majority stake in the project for more than $200 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Puttin' on More Ritz | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...expectations of the first year become a willingness to accept mediocrity later on. After a year of carrying stadium binoculars to see the professor in Sanders, students happily accept "small" 50-student classes. After three terrible cores in the first semester of one's first year, the prospect of one terrible core junior year doesn't seem...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Separate And Unequal Academies | 9/22/1990 | See Source »

...North Prospect Church, Roseland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Harvard Votes | 9/18/1990 | See Source »

...North Prospect Church, Roseland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Harvard Votes | 9/18/1990 | See Source »

That is a prospect so dire that neither side will allow it to occur. For the first time since the talks began four months ago, Democrats and Republicans both seemed more interested in working out a deal than in political posturing. Bush believes the crisis atmosphere arising from the showdown with Saddam Hussein may be the best, and last, chance to stampede the Congress toward a budget agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Bush's Other Summit | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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