Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospect of being sucked into Starr's machinery set off alarms among other agents, who worry about being compelled to report on a President's words and actions. If bodyguards can be forced to become hostile witnesses, Presidents may end up sometimes trying to shake them, with unhappy results for presidential safety. So Fox left the courthouse last week without being questioned, because Starr's prosecutors were negotiating with officials of the Justice and Treasury departments over ground rules for such a session. Under an agreement reached on Friday, Starr will be permitted to pursue "limited questioning...
...full House would be presided over by Speaker Newt Gingrich, a man with some of the lowest approval ratings in America. "The Republicans don't have a lot of credibility on this stuff," says a cautiously confident aide to the President. "Everyone thinks they're partisan." The prospect of a conviction in the Senate, where the trial stage of any impeachment would be held, is also slim. It would require a two-thirds majority to convict a sitting President, which in turn would require 12 Democrats to join all the Senate Republicans in a vote against Clinton...
...mean to mock these fears. Certainly, the prospect of graduating is daunting. For the first time in our lives, we will no longer have rules put upon us by our parents or professors; we will have to create them for ourselves. We will no longer have a community of friends around us at all times. And for most of us, there is that nagging little issue of (gulp) money...
Still, if things do not work out right away, McLaughlin will not abandon his goal of playing in MLS. Although the prospect of a stint in the second division A-League is not nearly as appealing as a shot at the big time, McLaughlin recognizes that he might need a little seasoning before he can take on the likes of Carlos Valderrama and Marco Etcheverry...
...only the weapons but also the scientists that create them, but we don't know where to find them," he says. "That's why inspections are better than attacks." And if bombing prompts Iraq to end to the weapons inspection program, the allies would be left with the unpalatable prospect of fighting the Gulf War all over again...