Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their hands deviously and plot their cruel act. In the mail I receive a little, embossed, parchment-colored invitation: "You and a guest," it taunts. Now I face a dilemma. Either I have to go out and actively search for a date, or I am faced with the prospect of acknowledging that I am a loser staying home on formal night. What...
Mesmerized by the prospect of a business boom that could produce thousands of new white-collar and service jobs, Milwaukee's civic leaders never gave much thought to the possibility of civil unrest. So it came as a shock when alderman Michael McGee proclaimed earlier this month that he was forming a Black Panther militia that would resort to "actual fighting, bloodshed and urban guerrilla warfare" unless the city did more to improve the lot of impoverished African Americans. Inner-city blacks, warned McGee, were fed up with white officials spending money on shopping malls and skyscrapers while prosperity passed...
...midnight approached, the crowd keeping vigil on the front steps of the government building in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian Republic, suddenly burst into song. The anthem was an ancient call to battle, glorifying freedom as "the sweetest of words." As its haunting harmonies echoed down nearby Rustaveli Prospect, tens of thousands of Georgians thrust clenched fists into the air. One year ago to the day, on April 9, 1989, Soviet troops had broken up a peaceful demonstration on the very same spot with tanks, shovels and poison gas, killing 20 people. Last week residents gathered in the streets again...
...annual rate and headed for 9% by summer. Interest rates are pushing 15%, and 9% wage increases continue to outstrip productivity. Since elections must be called by June 1992, Thatcher has less than two years in which to turn the economy around -- or face the real prospect of electoral defeat. A decade-long run of good fortune seems near the end -- and the Prime Minister finds herself more vulnerable than ever before...
...Racist!" I thought to myself as I approached Greenough. I had just seriously entertained the prospect that I would be randomly attacked in Harvard Yard by three Black men whom I had never before seen...