Word: prospect
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Nowadays Soviets want to talk about nothing but their domestic situation. The more alarming the subject and the gloomier the prospect, the more they have to say. Topic A is the stagnation of the economy. Topic B is the eruption of the nationality problem. Topic C is how terrible it is that A and B should be happening at the same time...
Since Knesset members have a vested interest in the current system, none of these reforms stand much chance of passage in the coming months. Moreover, Labor and Likud would have to work together -- an unlikely prospect -- to steamroller the necessary bills past the smaller parties. And even if reform succeeded, it would not alleviate the profound divisions within the Israeli electorate. "The Messiah won't come through changing the system of elections," says Rabbi Abraham Ravitz, whose Degel Hatorah party holds two seats. But at least the nation would be guided from the top by leaders chosen by the people...
...still further by a dispute about -- of all irrelevant subjects -- abortion. The Senate had added to the omnibus bill a provision permitting the District of Columbia to use local public money to fund abortions, despite warnings that it would prompt Bush to veto the whole thing. Faced with that prospect, which could have delayed aid to Panama and Nicaragua for a month, the Senate agreed to delete the abortion provisions from the bill before it is sent to the President...
...worsening. Though the country has physicians with unsurpassed training, its health-care delivery is among the most expensive, least efficient and least equitable in the developed world. Of the industrialized nations, the U.S. ranks 17th in life expectancy and an appalling 20th in preventing infant mortality. Yet the prospect of a national health-insurance system, long advocated as a solution, alarms many doctors. They see it as an intrusion by Big Government into their professional lives -- and, perhaps more important, as a threat to their high incomes...
...reform and maybe even force the enactment of public financing of ) congressional elections. Nothing else has done the trick. Scandal, disgust and decreasing voter participation -- all predicted to energize change -- have failed. It may be that nothing can, or ever could, concentrate a Congressman's mind more than the prospect of losing his job forever...