Word: prospecting
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While medical research into the AIDS virus has proceeded at a phenomenal pace, with doctors making new discoveries every month--or even daily, the prospect of a vaccine or a successful treatment for the disease is still years away. Some facts about AIDS are clear, however. The number of people known to be carrying the AIDS virus has been doubling every year since it was first discovered in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, 17,001 people have been diagnosed as actually suffering from AIDS as of February 3. However, current estimates place...
Parties like that could only happen in a department with a faculty-to-concentrator ratio of more than one-to-one. Some Harvard students in larger departments might shrink at the prospect of faculty members knowing them so well and keeping track of them...
Suddenly there was a prospect of dramatic political unrest and repression in the former U.S. colony, which might ultimately pose a threat to the two important U.S. military bases on the islands, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. The growing confrontation promised to redound to the benefit of the increasingly powerful Communist New People's Army, whose insurgency will soon, in the Pentagon's view, pose a real military challenge to the Marcos regime...
...barefoot through the cold months; a year before that, the faculty voted to forgo desserts to cut costs in the dining room. For better than a century, then, the place has always managed to claw itself through every penurious period. And so in the spring of 1984, when the prospect of real collapse looked near, those who love Fisk were beside themselves. The anguished question on every lip: How can this be allowed to happen...
...Contadora plan has been criticized for lacking firm provisions guaranteeing a pluralistic government and the security of human rights. Washington is in a position to revise and strengthen the program. The Contadora nations have asked Washington to work with them to further the prospect of a democratic future for Central America...