Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are also episodes outside the White House that look suspiciously as though fund raisers tried to lure special interests with the prospect of spending time with officials who could affect their businesses. One was a $10,000-a-plate dinner attended by Clinton last year at the mansion of Democratic pitchman William Brandt, outside Chicago. It raked in more than $1 million for the D.N.C. The guests included bankruptcy lawyers and bankers. Also present was Brady Williamson, whom Clinton had just appointed chairman of a commission that will file a report later this year recommending changes to bankruptcy...
Should we be happy about the prospect of telemarketing calls from power companies asking us to buy their brand of electricity--not to mention entertainment and telecommunications services--when all we're trying to do is just make toast? Yes and no. "It's a 50-year jump all at once," says restructuring guru Michael Hammer, who is doing a brisk business in the utility field. "It's not all bad. It's not all good. It's different." When you flip a light switch, you probably couldn't care less where the power was generated, how it was routed...
Nowhere has the prospect of deregulation had a sharper impact than in New England. John Rowe, ceo of the New England Electric System, says his company was virtually forced by state officials to put its 18 power plants on the block. "In effect, we were told that in order to get all that we could from our stranded investment [a reference to white-elephant plants and unprofitable long-term power contracts], we should sell off our generation...
...reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin, her matching sister could have produced all the marrow she needed. But nature didn't provide her with a twin, and now the cloning lab will try. In nine months, the parents, who face the very likely prospect of losing the one daughter they have, could find themselves raising two of her--the second created expressly to help keep the first alive...
...with strong backs and women with broad pelvises would have been the first ones society would have wanted to reproduce. During the industrial age, however, brainpower began to count for more than muscle power. Presumably the custodians of cloning technology at that historical juncture would have faced the prospect of letting previous generations of strapping men and fecund women die out and replacing them with a new population of intellectual giants. "What is a better human being?" asks Boston University ethicist George Annas. "A lot of it is just...