Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the Senate must move quickly and establish now what the standards for confirmation are going to be. Only by setting the criteria early can the Senate demand that Souter meet them. Otherwise, it will only be made to look foolish in front of the electorate, a most uncomfortable prospect with elections just weeks away...
...prospect of more deals to come between Bonn and Moscow presents Kohl with a different diplomatic challenge: how to assure his allies in Europe that the German powerhouse, the largest economy in the European Community, is not seeking to control Eastern Europe. Even before he arrived home, Kohl was asked if the Zheleznovodsk agreement was a new Rapallo -- a reference to the 1922 treaty between the communist U.S.S.R. and the Weimar Republic that paved the way for German rearmament after World War I. The comparison is "wholly off," said Kohl, because "the reunified Germany is part of NATO...
...That prospect inspired jubilation among right-wingers, who immediately began pressuring George Bush to fill the vacancy with a conservative. "This is a seminal event in the return of the rule of law," exulted Michael Carvin, a former Justice Department official who helped screen judicial candidates for Ronald Reagan. "If there is anyone who represents the Warren Court's judicial activism, it is Brennan. He is the intellectual leader on the left of the court. Some important cases will go the other way when he is replaced...
...prospect of leaner times ahead because of smaller Pentagon budgets was a significant factor in the cutbacks. Three of the company's four biggest military production programs -- the Air Force's F-15E Eagle fighter, the Marine Corps's AV-8B Harrier II strike fighter and the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter -- are scheduled to be phased out in the next three years. The C-17 military transport is behind schedule, and orders for the Navy's T-45 Goshawk trainer have been cut back. The company is also teamed with other aerospace companies in several programs that face...
...problems listed above are but a few, but nonetheless are glaringly missed when conversations of a nation's greatness is contemplated. How can people, including Mr. Nye, talk or even worry about the prospect of the Germans or the Japanese overtaking us as world leaders when the problems of their own people are so horrendous. And yet still, people espouse that in order for the United States to continue as world leader, to be #1 as you will, we must always think in terms of how we look to the outside world...