Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials swear they no longer fear exposing any lingering secrets about CIA support for Pinochet or for his 1973 coup against Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende. What does concern them, they say, is the prospect of a dangerous new right-left polarization in Chile if Pinochet were tried abroad. But having said that, the officials claim they are trying to signal to the Chilean government that it must "make the tough decisions it needs to" and pledge to try Pinochet itself. Of course, Pinochet has immunity at home, and no one thinks he would be put on trial there...
Cheryl L. Patterson-Munroe is in her mid-thirties, works as a paralegal, and is raising her three children, ages 16,13 and 2, by herself. She lives in Cambridge, in the Clinton and Prospect Street Apartments, is responsible and says she always pays her rent...
...start their careers in established companies before venturing off on their own. But for those who aren't quite sure what they want to do, recruiting doesn't just defer a dream--it defers the opportunity to dream. Instead of using this time to face the very frightening prospect of deciding what they hope to do next year, seniors instead substitute the very heartening prospect of deciding where they hope to work, conflating the idea of a life with the idea of a career, and the idea of security with the idea of success...
...renamed Windows 2000), the centerpiece of both the next generation of industry-standard PCs and Microsoft's effort to do to Java and Sun's Solaris operating system what it did to Navigator with Explorer. In fact, McNealy's primary motive for supporting the Netscape buyout may be the prospect of saving the Netscape browser. One of Microsoft's big advantages is its ability to integrate its Windows and browser software, offering customers a soup-to-nuts package deal. With AOL on his side, McNealy can offer a similar deal--as long as Case decides that a healthy Navigator...
...Allie (Jessica Biel) and running a fake ID service. Because he would rather stay in California than go home to New York for the holidays, our hero's father (Gary Cole) promises him a Porsche (!) if he makes it home by 6 p.m. on Christmas Day. This is a prospect Jake finds too tempting to pass up. Jake's business, however, botches one too many assignments, and some unhappy customers toss him into the desert after supergluing a Santa suit to his body (no, this doesn't make more sense when you see it). Without the money...