Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That," Rudenstine said, "comes in retrospect, not prospect...
...Mutual Life Insurance Company, for instance, tried to lure Harvard graduates with the prospect of "$4,000 to $9,000 a year, and more!" in advertisements in campus publications...
...Sherman Act to apply to 21st century Silicon Valley. If Microsoft loses in court this fall, Windows NT 5.0, due in spring 1999, would be the logical target of a new and far more sweeping federal suit. Indeed, Bill Gates could find himself fending off Justice in perpetuity, a prospect which in turn raises the fear that the company could come to resemble the IBM that emerged from 13 years of tortuous antitrust wars a wounded giant--drained of the competitive fire that helped spark the computer revolution. Microsoft's enemies have long yearned for the Feds to take...
What is seriously troubling about the week's events is the prospect of an unstoppable chain reaction of proliferation. Plenty of other nations have just as much pride, insecurity and ambition to be global players, along with entrenched faith in the curative power of nuclear possession. If the five acknowledged nuclear powers couldn't keep democratic India from blasting into the club, how can they keep anyone else...
...deal. With merger mania rampant in industries from banking to telecommunications, Klein had ample opportunity to prove his trust-busting mettle without taking on Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory and go home. Unfortunately for all concerned (with the exception...