Word: prospect
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...suburbanite, few experiences are more wrenching than watching a lush green lawn turn brown and scraggly. All across the increasingly arid U.S. Sunbelt, homeowners are facing that disheartening prospect. Because of persistent droughts and rapid population growth, there is not nearly enough water to keep every plot of grass green. Los Angeles, in the fourth year of a dry spell, recently imposed water rationing, and South Florida, which absorbs as many as 1,000 newcomers a day, has been needing more rain for two years...
...stake is the dwindling pool of independent scientists and doctors," Bourke says. "Shall we entrust it to Harvard's anonymous and directionless committees? The prospect is Reaganesque...
Along with shrinking welfare benefits have come shrinking imaginations. That's why so many of us deal with the prospect of entering the wide world by postponing it. For the masses of law school entrants racked with guilt over their chosen profession, talking vaguely about the public interest can assuage the guilt--temporarily...
They are cyclical cicadas, and this year it is Chicago's turn to endure a major uprising. As the city waited for the bugs to buzz forth last week, the insects became the talk of the town. As if the prospect of stepping on them were not revolting enough, University of Chicago ecology professor Monte Lloyd is urging people to eat them. Says he: "They are quite good, like avocado and new potato mixed." A sample recipe: dip cicadas in batter and fry until golden brown. Serve with cocktail sauce or sour cream, or use as a pizza topping...
...test of a President's toughness." This led Moscow to misinterpret Bush's opening. "Who was Bush but Reagan's man?" says Yuri Pavlov, the Soviet's top Latin America policy assistant. "That's how we incorrectly looked at it at the beginning, before we really engaged. So the prospect of the contras fighting again seemed to us very real...