Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jamalh Prince, the boys' track coach, said he thought the prospect for a new football and track facility are good...
...those who survived attacks by the Unabomber, the prospect of a trial evokes feelings ranging from dread to relief. University of Colorado engineering professor John Hauser, who was an Air Force pilot and aspiring astronaut when he was injured in a May 1985 bombing at Berkeley, says the arrest of a suspect and the halt to the bombings meant more to him than the trial. "If having the trial over means that I could fly jets again and pursue those paths, I'd say, 'Hey, great! Cool!'" he told TIME. "But it's not going to bring my hand back...
...your report on a new procedure that may offer women the ability to freeze their eggs, thus lengthening their reproductive years [MEDICINE, Oct. 27]: the prospect of helping unfertilized human eggs transcend time raises the specter of babies born of mothers long deceased. Should a woman's death be accompanied by the destruction of her eggs? Or should the eggs of a particularly admired woman be allowed to reproduce ex post facto? Once again, science is so far ahead of the law that ethicists can only watch in wonder as the techno-train flies by. Disembodied eggs need living wills...
...achieve its intended impact. Although authorities reported that all six gunmen were killed in a shoot-out with police at the scene, that's little comfort to would-be tourists scared off by the prospect of becoming targets in Egypt?s political crossfire...
...scenes in Venice are lovely to look at and lovingly filmed: Softley admits that the prospect of shooting in that city was one of the most enticing aspects of the project. Again, his cinematic imagery, without being particularly inventive, has a certain visceral power: a walk through a fish-market, capturing a weird, peculiarly nauseating kind of carnality, serves to underscore Milly's physical fragility; the sunlight and warm, golden-tinted colors of Venice give way to driving rain and bleak grayness as Milly's impending discovery of Kate's and Merton's treachery looms near. To complete the contrast...