Word: prospect
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...balloon in terms of inpatient costs, the other part of the balloon has expanded." The bad news for seniors: the rise in Medigap premiums far outpaced Medicare inflation or Social Security Cost of Living adjustments in many states. "The sharp increase in Medigap insurance premiums are a threatening prospect for many Americans," said Families USA executive director Ron Pollack. "When premiums increase 20, 30 and 40 percent in one year, may of our nation's elderly are going to be squeezed out of the Medigap market." --Lamia Abu-Haidar
...final episodes of last year's Seinfeld revealed the sad consequences of this theory. Jerry Seinfeld, who is to antiromance what Don Quixote was to the real thing, is suddenly converted to the prospect of a permanent attachment when he meets Janeane Garofalo, who is, in every way but the anatomical, Seinfeld himself. She talks the way he does, thinks the way he does, reacts in exactly the same ways. Seinfeld immediately falls shallowly in love with himself, and is prepared to marry himself when the inevitable question arises: Who would marry someone like...
...sergeants say they are excited about their unit assignments and the prospect of increased interaction with students...
Finding an overseas job--or more accurately in many cases, creating one--can be either an easy or a difficult prospect, depending on where you want to go and what you want to do. A temporary summer job in a foreign city can be a relatively easy thing to arrange. There is, however, little entry-level recruiting conducted in the U.S. for international jobs. If you really want to work abroad, it's generally up to you to make it happen...
Russia, however, views the prospect of a fundamentalist Islamic Afghanistan with undisguised alarm, particularly the projection of Taliban rule or influence into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...