Word: prospect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nobody's tried it in 70- or 80-year-olds yet," says Dr. Richard Paulson, head of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Southern California, where Keh was a patient, "but at present there's no evidence of an upper age limit." Inevitably, the prospect of using their own eggs, frozen years before, rather than a donor's genetically foreign eggs, will only increase the number of older women who want to give birth...
...Damon's qualifications for joining the short list, Coppola says, "Matt has got the gift--and he's a writer in his own right. That gives him something special." That plus the fact that Damon's salary remains a fraction of his more famous peers, an attractive prospect to studios in search of new talent...
...politicians is boost their familiarity and fund-raising chops for the next go-around. Forbes has emerged as a front runner for the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination in 2000. Mark Warner, a cellular-phone tycoon who plowed $10.3 million into his unsuccessful Virginia Senate bid, is the Democrats' hot prospect for Senator in 2000 or Governor in 2001. And Millner has a head start on patching things up with the farmers...
...there's no time for that now. As he draws nearer to the brink, the President will have to do a better job of making his case to the American people and the world community. His strongest words last week came when he said he wanted to "wipe the prospect of chemical warfare off the face of the earth...I don't want a bunch of terrorists with laboratories in their briefcases going from airport to airport wreaking havoc in the world." That was the kind of rhetoric Americans will need to hear more of if Clinton is to muster...
Advances in technology also make the prospect of home theater more attractive. With direct-broadcast satellite TV taking off, millions of Americans (and early adopters in Europe and Asia) are enjoying the first digital television sound and images, including hours of sports and movies. In 3 1/2 years, according to the Carmel Group research firm, U.S. DBS customers have grown from zero to 5.8 million. And as cable and broadcasters start to roll out high-resolution programming in the next few years, more viewers will find a reason to be immersed in a movie-theater environment. "The future of home...