Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fish knew that Blake, a strong pro prospect, might decide to make this his full-time job. At the very least, he would take the fall semester...
Stories like Bellinger's are making minority businesses even more wary of hitching their success to the vagaries of government. For many, though, the prospect of snagging huge federal and municipal contracts is too tempting to pass up. For example, the Wisconsin state legislature authorized $160 million in public funds toward a new baseball stadium in Milwaukee, with 25% of the funds for development, construction and professional services earmarked for minority businesses and 5% for female-owned companies...
Even under those rules, House committee hearings could easily turn into peep-show-style government, a prospect that worries judiciary chairman Henry Hyde. As the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill proceedings showed, it's hard to play the role of Olympian legislators while you're asking questions about pubic hair. When Congress is reduced to picking through salacious details, says Arizona Senator John McCain, a Republican, "we're all tarred with the same brush...
With a range of up to 1,240 miles, far greater than anything else in the North's arsenal, the Taepo Dong-1 can reach all of Japan--and the 41,000 U.S. troops stationed there. The missile also raised the prospect of new threats to the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East, where Pyongyang sells its missiles to clients like Libya and Iran. More worrisome still is what the launch says about Pyongyang's aggressive missile program. Some experts believe North Korea is well on the way to building even more muscular missiles, capable of reaching Alaska...
According to O'Reilly, often sex offenders likeElster first plead innocent because they cannotadmit their crimes but later decide to professtheir guilt in return for lighter sentences whenthe prospect of jail looms closer...