Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threatened by the rise of the Web, it's the record labels' longtime partners, the retail chains. Right now Web fans still have to make do with tinny RealAudio sound clips. There is no technological barrier, however, to downloading entire albums, in pristine digital quality, onto blank CDs--a prospect the Sam Goody stores of the world view with dread. But that's the way it has always been with rock 'n' roll. One person's dream is another's nightmare...
Late one night during the O.J. Simpson criminal trial last year, prosecutor Marcia Clark let down her hair and indulged a fantasy: getting the chance to cross-examine Simpson herself. The accused murderer's defense attorneys, after all, kept dangling the tantalizing prospect before her. "It'll never happen," Clark said. "But I would love it." Striking a hungry, heavy-lidded pose at her desk, she cooed, "Good morning, Mr. Simpson. I have a few thousand questions...
...Pact, NATO helped to consolidate civilian-led democracy in Spain and to keep the peace between Greece and Turkey. As NATO adapts its mission and expands its membership to meet new challenges and opportunities, it will be a positive factor in the promotion of democracy and regional peace. The prospect of NATO admission has already induced several central European states to accelerate internal reforms and improve relations with their neighbors. Russia, which has come to grief twice in this century because of instability in central Europe, has a security interest in these favorable trends...
Clinton may be President, but Wall Street won the election, in the form of a "status quo" rally that has even seasoned traders shaking their heads. The prospect of at least two more years of Democratic President Bill Clinton pitted against a Republican-controlled Congress is just the tonic investors seem to want. Since Nov. 1, when Clinton looked to be a lock, the Dow Jones industrial average has zipped past 6100,6200 and 6300, en route to a near 6% gain...
...people dreaming of immortality, that prospect may fall a little short. But for those of us who are contemplating a life that ends around age 80, four or five additional decades sounds like a splendid first step...