Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Montreal--Another good prospect comes down the chute, Vladimir Guerrero. Problems with the rotation and Carlos Perez's health are still...
...emphasized that she was excited by the prospect of devoting a year to service in the Boston area and around the state...
...People can give money to campaigns or parties, the pols say, but the donors get nothing from the government in return. Repeating this fiction obscures the obvious point: why would hardheaded businessmen give hundreds of millions of dollars--$262 million, the Federal Election Commission reported last week--without the prospect of getting something in exchange? But so long as no one shatters the myth, the laws won't be changed...
...prosecutors hope to walk through to get at the likes of Philip Morris, the maker of Marlboro, which controls half the tobacco market as the center of a diversified empire. Last year Philip Morris made $6.3 billion worldwide on revenues of $69.2 billion. What excited prosecutors most was the prospect of getting their hands on mountains of documents that Liggett agreed to surrender and that they believe could incriminate all the other cigarette makers. They have already seen a slew of Liggett files, the product of other lawsuits. But hundreds of thousands more, particularly those pertaining to the group...
...spite of the sputtering from Moscow, the prospect of increasing military commitments in Central Europe, and the considerable dollar cost attached, the plan to expand NATO has generated surprisingly little discussion in the West. Though many Europeans have doubts, they look at enlargement resignedly, as an American show. Most of the European partners figure there is no point in opposing the U.S. now that the push has gone this far and Clinton seems unyielding on it. The alliance's future could be at stake. "More than anything else," says a senior NATO diplomat in Brussels, "enlargement is about an American...