Word: prospective
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Despite the gun industry's winning court record so far, the prospect of defending all these new suits has put it in a compromising mood. Last week manufacturers' representative Feldman traveled to the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Reno, Nev., to discuss ways the industry and cities could reduce gun violence without getting the courts involved. And eight companies that make 80% of U.S.-made firearms will voluntarily include child-safety locks by the end of this year. It all looks nice and amicable, but lawyers for victims insist these changes are coming only because the industry is worried...
...found themselves burned when the Republicans walked out anyway. Their only hope for regaining their majority in November--and it's a slim one--is in getting voters riled against a Republican majority that happens to be enjoying some of its highest approval ratings ever. Democrats are relishing the prospect of labeling the Republicans in November as captives of Big Tobacco and a do-nothing bunch of laggards. Within 24 hours, their pollsters were arguing that the G.O.P. had badly misjudged public sentiment, that even if the ads had turned people against this bill, more than two-thirds of voters...
...implement a program that can save a million lives a year. It was a vote against our children and for the tobacco lobby. It's as simple at that." The goal for him now is to inflict the maximum political pain on the Republicans without totally killing any prospect of a deal. But a political campaign for a new bill requires focus, which is something this White House has largely lacked during the second term, and particularly since the Lewinsky scandal broke open in January. Between managing an Asian financial crisis, nuclear tests in India and Pakistan and ethnic conflicts...
...gift for gab, Alexie is an enrolled member of the Spokane tribe, though he also speaks proudly of his father's Coeur d'Alene heritage. Chatting in a plush Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel lobby a week before the movie's release, he's clearly stoked at the prospect that it might crack open doors for other budding Native auteurs. "Right away, we've given the whole idea of Indian filmmakers credibility," he says, beaming at the notion that Smoke Signals could do for his people what Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It did for African Americans. "Spike didn...
Christians and Jews alike are fascinated with the prospect that POPE JOHN PAUL II will make his first visit to Israel to mark the anniversary of Jesus Christ's birth in A.D. 2000. The Pope is ardently interested, but plans have long been entangled in politics and diplomacy. Now the Pope is also exploring a visit to Iraq. ROGER CARDINAL ETCHEGARAY, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray--who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations...