Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month, students flocked by the hundreds to Harvard's first Media Jobs and Internships Fair, and it doesn't take genius to understand the appeal. For would-be writers, jobs in the media are especially seductive. After spending years perfecting our use of words, we see the prospect of finally getting a chance to shine. But there is a certain danger in working in the media. Despite their alluring power, words can also escape your control. As a painful experience last August taught me, you can get yourself into trouble you would never imagine...
...misnomer. Probably the only sweeping conclusion the vote justified is that Americans by and large do not trust either party enough to give it full control of the government, or of Congress as a whole, or even of one chamber. Far from being disgusted by the prospect of divided government as a breeder of legislative deadlock, not a few Americans rather like the idea--even consider it a logical extension of the constitutional system of checks and balances...
...part of the house. In the midst of relative prosperity and peace and the incumbent reign of Bill the Bridgebuilder, Americans heard muffled partisan voices that did not seem entirely focused or even important (Clinton having artfully stolen many of the Republican issues). A lot of Americans, without the prospect of the noose to concentrate the mind, passed through the political months in a doze. They ignored the conventions and the presidential debates in record numbers, and given the low nutritional content of those events, may have been right...
...what would be the largest foreign buyout of a U.S. company if regulators approve it (an uncertain prospect, given likely resistance from rivals like AT&T), BT agreed Nov. 3 to pay about $21 billion for the 80% of MCI it does not already own. The merged company, to be called Concert, taking the name of a joint venture between the two, would have $42 billion in revenues and match AT&T in market value. The new colossus, boasts MCI chairman Bert Roberts, "will trump the competition as we open up communications markets both domestically and around the world...
...Clinton was an endangered incumbent facing a rising challenge from Republicans and the prospect of independent campaigns run by retiring Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) and former Gen. Colin Powell, Berke said...