Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first two games, Harvard found itself down 0-2 to Fairfield, facing the unpleasant prospect of defeat for the first time that weekend...
...Arkansas. All three have been convicted of fraud in cases brought by Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Clinton replied, "I've given no consideration" to pardons; then he described in some detail the procedure he would follow if he did. That struck some columnists as dangling the prospect of a pardon in front of Susan McDougal, who has been jailed for contempt because she refused to answer Starr's questions as to whether the President testified truthfully (on videotape) at her trial...
...fact, the tunnel opening was a godsend for Arafat. "The Israelis threw him a golden opportunity, and he pounced on it," says Khalil Shikaki, director of the Center of Palestine Research and Studies, based in Nablus. For one thing, embracing the uprising offered Arafat the prospect of improving his standing with his own people, which had fallen unprecedentedly low. Says Shikaki, whose center regularly monitors public opinion: "Optimism about the future had flown out the window." Palestinians blamed mostly the Israelis for their hopelessness, but also Arafat and his P.A. They felt their leadership had been duped into a dead...
...House official. "Ultimately it's a matter of shared motives--that's the mark of deep common chemistry, and that's what's missing." Until Netanyahu chooses another way, no amount of U.S. mediation can move the peace process along. Perhaps, as a senior State Department aide says, "the prospect of international outrage and more, the chance that Israel's economy can be adversely impacted by his head-in-the-sand policies, will cause Netanyahu to see the light." But any learning curve will be steep...
That will take some doing: Chrysler builds roughly twice as many vehicles in the U.S. as Toyota does. But such talk-- as well as the prospect of precious, high-paying jobs--is music to the ears of town fathers and mothers in the hamlets along I-64. They'd surely welcome the opportunity to be the next stop on Toyota Road...