Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East Harlem? Piece of cake. Just transfer to a downtown bus, and look, there one is coming down Lexington now. OK, so the people on the bus gave me funny looks as I tucked my laptop between my feet and opened my complimentary Shuttle edition of the latest American Prospect: A Journal of the Liberal Imagination, but whatever; this is my public transportation...
...most basic function of government is to secure the liberty and property of the governed, a government that can't even implement the rule of law is hardly worthy of the name. So, at least, writes Stephen Holmes in his American Prospect article "What Russia Teaches Us Now: How Weak States Threaten Freedom." New Yorkers like their persons and property to be secure. You can't argue with that. I didn't like getting mugged at gunpoint either. But the flip side is that a lot of people still haven't got any property to secure...
...bright life into its songs. Of course, it also has the bad habit of jamming and soloing the stuffing out of them. Straight On Till Morning includes an unfortunate number called Psycho Joe (Goes to the Electric Chair). "He worshiped Satan/ And liked Iron Maiden," run the lyrics. The prospect of listening to an extended version of that, live at Madison Square Garden, is deeply dispiriting...
Although Sue E. Kuelzer, co-owner of Grendel's, said "we will stay as long as we can," co-owner Herbert Kuelzer said he is prepared to shut the doors of the restaurant on March 4, 1998, citing finances and the prospect of higher rents...
SEOUL, South Korea: The prospect of reaching a formal peace treaty on the Korean peninsula took a major step backwards today after North Korean soldiers exchanged heavy gunfire with South Korean troops. North Korean officials said several of its soldiers were wounded in the shoot-out and accused the south of committing a "grave armed provocative act." South Korea, which reported no casualties, fired back, saying the skirmish was an "intentional provocation" by North Korea. South Korean military officials said its border guards discovered a small group of North Korean troops on the south side of the demilitarized zone...