Word: prospective
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Dunphy, commissioner of public works, said that Cambridge is currently in "great shape," but that the prospect of more snowfall in upcoming weeks is a concern...
...dropped 35 points. By the end of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 97.19 points, a steep decline that compounded a 67.55-point drop on Tuesday. It was the ninth-worst point drop ever, and the biggest since budget negotiations stalled on December 18. In shattering the prospect of the first balanced budget in three decades, the Speaker's remarks helped deepen investor pessimism about economic prospects. "What we're hearing from the market is that the absence of a budget deal will lead to higher interest rates," reports Deputy Chief of Correspondents Rick Hornick. "That would lead...
Sure, I would not have enjoyed employed taking exams the last week before vacation terribly much, but I would trade the looming month of January for earlier exams and the prospect of another month of "Justice...
...sending out--or devolving--welfare programs to the states, Gingrich raises the prospect of more experimentation and innovation with a system that has not proved its value to date. But by capping the amount of money Washington is willing to send to the states and by putting limits on the number of years a welfare recipient can draw payments, the G.O.P. is testing the theory that if the poor know they are not automatically getting payments, they will lift themselves out of poverty. Democrats warn that, with caps and limits, the poor will be devastated. Counters Besharov...
Bosnia and Herzegovina enjoyed the prospect of a peaceful Christmas, the first in nearly four years, after the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia signed a treaty in Paris. President Clinton also signed it, along with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Spain, at a ceremony in the Elysee Palace. Under the agreement, Bosnia will be partitioned into two roughly equal parts--one for Bosnian Serbs, another for a Muslim-Croat federation. In Bosnia, advance teams from nato's 60,000-strong peacekeeping force were battling only record snows in the initial stages of their deployment...