Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...research inevitably raises the possibility that healthy people will try to boost their performance or, even more likely, that of their children--a prospect that has bioethicists ruminating feverishly. (See following story...
...Jets (giving 7.5) over the Patriots. The Pats aren't that bad, but the J-E-T-S just might be that good. The revenge of Curtis Martin and a Meadowlands full of Big Apple faithful salivating over the prospect of a postseason without John Elway ought to cover this fleshy spread without too much nail-biting. Parcells will miss injured plugger Wayne Chrebet ? but not this week...
Well, maybe not. For one thing, the Democrats are doing nearly as well. In six months, their party committees have raised $24.2 million--up 130% from four years earlier, a far greater jump than the G.O.P. has made. What's worse, there's the prospect of rain on the whole dollar-driven parade. The black cloud comes in the form of a proposed ban on soft money, among other campaign-finance reforms being promoted by some in the Republicans' own camp, principally Senator John McCain and Representative Christopher Shays. These advocates of reform have long tried to shut the loophole...
...Rove bellows, grimacing at the thought--or at least at the prospect of its being put into print. "There are a lot of people working on this campaign," he insists modestly. "I am just one of them." It is true that Rove is one of three fiercely loyal top aides, dubbed "the Iron Triangle," who have all been with Bush since his first campaign for Governor and who form the impenetrable nucleus of the presidential operation. And it is also true that Joe Allbaugh holds the title of campaign manager and that Karen Hughes, the communications director, is closer...
...Primakov for president and Luzhkov as prime minister," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Even in his mental fog, Yeltsin must see that the program is an implicit rejection of everything that he has presided over." Primakov even tossed Yeltsin what could be an olive branch: the prospect of immunity for the Yeltsin "family" if Boris can step down quietly when his term runs out. A different, stable Russia and an exit strategy for the sputtering Papa Bear? That may be an offer Russians can?t refuse...