Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that saw markets in Hong Kong and Indonesia jump by more than 7 percent Wednesday, international money managers remain concerned about stability of economies throughout Southeast Asia, says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. Last month's Thai currency crisis has International Monetary Fund managers sufficiently spooked to put the prospect of a major banking collapse in shaky Southeast Asian markets atop the agenda of this month's IMF meeting. "These countries aren't experienced in financial calamity," says Baumohl. "They really don't know how to protect themselves, and may not even have the resources...
Digital goofing with old clips has given John Wayne and Fred Astaire the opportunity to sell Coors beer and Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners on TV despite being dead. A more disturbing prospect is represented by a film called Everything's George, which begins shooting this week. It will star George Burns, who is also dead but will nevertheless appear, as himself, with the blessing of his estate. "Five weeks after he died, we already had the rights," boasts producer Paul Greenberg. The screenplay posits Burns as a recent arrival in heaven, a Level One angel desperate to reunite with...
...TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak says Smaltz will have to win big in the courtroom ? that is, get the majority of his 39 indictments to stick. And that's a far-from-certain prospect. "This will be a D.C. trial, with a D.C. jury. They've got a very healthy skepticism of independent prosecutors," says Novak...
...That prospect spurred the U.S. government for the first time to slash fishing quotas for certain sharks in Atlantic waters in April. It also moved conservationists to put seven shark species on the IUCN-World Conservation Union's Red List of threatened species and prompted calls for even stricter safeguards for sharks before it's too late...
...Symphony 1997 take off so quickly? One reason is that it is both frankly romantic and immediately accessible--Beethoven's Ninth boldly recast for postmoderns, right down to the climactic anthem in which the children's choir sings ecstatically of the prospect of world peace. The work's user-friendly tone, Tan says, is no accident: "If you ask young people of today to listen to a 20-minute-long symphonic movement, nobody really has the patience to listen--not even me! This is why the symphony is in 13 short movements. It's like paragraphs: each section...