Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard went into the season hoping--no, expecting--to win the Ivy League title, a goal that's obviously not going to happen now. Then Mighty Princeton rolls into town, bringing with it the prospect of redemption. Well, we didn't win the league, but at least we beat those 0-96#96!@ Tigers...
...without sentiment."I hate nostalgia," he said, "but I've made a hell of a living from it." So have his successors, who have continued to make the Bettmann credit line ubiquitous in print. Now a few taps on the computer keyboard will bring it to the screen. That prospect pleases the 92-year-old Bettmann, who pronounced himself delighted "to have seen my original acorn nourished and cultivated into a formidable digitized...
...Medicare payments, which total some $270 billion over seven years, will force hospitals to make substantial changes in the way they conduct their business. And Harvard's main teaching hospitals--Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, Children's, Beth Israel and the Deaconess--are all very anxious about the prospect of impending cuts...
...some alien culture," says law professor John Dwyer of the University of California, Berkeley. "It's still not quite akin to, 'Here's a fingerprint--how can you possibly contest it?' but it's way different than it was 12 months ago." Already overburdened courts are bracing for the prospect of more criminal defendants who refuse to cop a plea, opting instead for an O.J. dash for daylight before a jury. Potential jurors may be loath to perform a duty that in the Simpson case proved to be a kind of medieval torture...
...balance, Damasio contends, is our unconscious assigning of emotional values to some of those choices. Whether we experience a somatic response--a gut feeling of dread or a giddy sense of elation--emotions are helping to limit the field in any choice we have to make. If the prospect of lunch with a neurologist is unnerving or distasteful, Damasio suggests, the invitee will conveniently remember a previous engagement...