Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election is barely warm, and they're already taking polls for 2000. When they ask about [Texas governor and presidential prospect George W. Bush], half the people think he's his old man," Dukakis added...
...doesn't know any of the German phrases that are being angrily barked out. Instead of translating, he tells everyone that "points" will be subtracted for missing one's mommy and crying for food. According to Guido, the child who reaches 1000 points first gets a real tank, the prospect of which makes little Giosue's eyes widen just enough for him to dismiss his doubts about the game. In one of the film's funniest sequences,Guido translates an SS guard's orders intoItalian, even though he doesn't know any of theGerman phrases that are being angrily barked...
...Undergraduate Council is perceived to be a joke, so much so that in Adams House in the latest election, only eight brave residents dared to exercise their right to vote. Support for athletic teams is non-existent. The only things that motivate people to attend sporting events are the prospect of getting free stuff (Midnight Madness) or the prospect of getting drunk (the Harvard/Yale game...
They say the prospect of paying off tens ofthousands of dollars in loans often means a stintin a high-paying field like consulting orinvestment banking or a desperate search for thefellowship of one's dreams...
...this letter shouldn't be just a formality, to be left to rot under with your telephone bills. It's a blank check good for a year off of work, a summer without saving or a graduation not clouded by the prospect of life in consulting purgatory...