Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never thought I'd be so excited for it. Last year, I was too nervous about my upcoming first year at Harvard to do anything but hate the event. And I'm still not too thrilled about the prospect of standing in long lines and fighting my way through the extracurricular tent...
Alarmed by the prospect of a studentless search, outgoing Undergraduate Council chair Guhan Subramanian '92 out in his two cents, sending a letter to Corporation member/search committee chair Charles P. Slichter '46 urging him to solicit student opinion in selecting a new president. University officials said that Slichter was indeed planning to seek student input, but that it would not be as important as Subramanian hoped it would...
Alarmed by the prospect of a studentless search, outgoing Undergraduate Council chair Guhan Subramanian '92 put in his two cents, sending a letter to Corporation member/search committee chair Charles P. Slichter '46 urging him to solicit student opinion in selecting a new president. University officials said that Slichter was indeed planning to seek student input, but that it would not be as important as Subramanian hoped it would...
...That prospect makes coming to grips with the deficit all the more urgent. But throughout the blame game that has passed for negotiations, both sides have been more interested in scoring political points than in solving the problem. So the prospect is that both the Administration and its Democratic opposition will use the confrontation with Saddam Hussein as an excuse for delaying action to break the impasse...
...fight inflation, the Bank of Japan is using the only weapon in its arsenal: higher interest rates. A credit squeeze seems likely. John Hickling, portfolio manager of Fidelity Investments' Pacific Basin Fund, thinks the liquidity drought has arrived. Since nothing spooks stock-market investors like the prospect of rising interest rates and a credit crunch, Japanese shareholders have been cleaning out their portfolios, driving the Nikkei average on the Tokyo exchange down more than 30% from its late December high...