Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asks for help with citizenship papers for his mother, and he gets help. But the campaign chairman for the politician doesn't go ask him for money. The chairman goes where he sees there is a source of funds. So when I ask for something, I become a prospect for money...
...than 1,000 such clubs strewn across the city's five boroughs, dispensing cheap booze, loud music and a touch of the home country to immigrants. Many of them have something in common: the lack of a liquor license. All too many also offer their patrons something besides the prospect of a hot time on the town: the high risk of a fiery death...
...practices leave me in such a state of exhaustion that the thought of having to climb up three sets of stairs afterwards to get to my dorm room becomes a frightening prospect. And, day in and day out, I return to practice. To me, my sport is Harvard's ultimate challenge; my sport, too is "unceasing physical exertion...in the purest form of athletic competition...
...Having thorough input, Mike Spence can then go to the Faculty with a reasonable prospect of getting that through--in that sense, not having the committee is a slower method," he says...
June Howe, president of the NeighborhoodAssociation, wrote in a letter to HarvardPresident Derek C. Bok that, "The Mission Hillneighborhood is once again threatened by a largescale development, under the aegis of HarvardUniversity, with little prospect that ourlegitimate concerns will be respected by thecurrent beneficiaries of Harvard's largeness...