Word: prospect
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...That prospect doesn't appear to daunt the Senator from New York. Said a confidant who has talked to her regularly throughout the campaign: "This woman never quits. Neither she nor her husband." So don't expect this race to end anytime soon...
...deterrence that is based on the threat of mutual destruction could be a welcome element in the debate over nuclear policy. "Reagan now suggests that we slowly start investigating whether in the next century technology may offer a solution to our security that does not rest on the prospect of mass and mutual death," noted the Washington Post. "It is the product of Ronald Reagan's peculiar knack for asking an obvious question, one that has moral as well as political dimensions and one that the experts had assumed had been answered, or found unanswerable, or found not worth asking...
...America ECAC Hockey Championship on the line tonight in Albany, N.Y., Harvard’s challenge is simple: outscore the No. 20 Big Red (18-13-3) or go home. For Crimson hockey, already predisposed to view competition against its long-standing rival as its version The Game, the prospect of sending Cornell back to Ithaca for the season and reaching the championship game adds an extra intensity to the playoff atmosphere. “An ECAC championship wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t have to go through Cornell first...
...playing in the minor leagues and questions surrounding a talented but injury-plagued freshman class, Harvard has to receive production from some of its returning players other than Vance.Among the cast of would-be sluggers, Stack-Babich appears the most likely to take the lead role.Once a highly touted prospect for Wake Forest, Stack-Babich redshirted his freshman year. with the Demon Deacons. After the coach who recruited him retired and new skipper Rick Rembielak appeared intent on starting fresh with his own hand-picked players, Stack-Babich felt the need for a change. He transferred to Harvard, where...
...urging restraint among Tibetan activists aiming to confront the Chinese. Clearly, the Dalai Lama is concerned that confronting a far stronger rival - one whose centrality to the global economy makes it an indispensable partner to the world's most powerful nations - can only result in defeat, and ruin any prospect of a consensual coexistence between Beijing and a relatively autonomous Tibet...