Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Only the prospect of a Democratic legislative sweep could unnerve the Street--but that's just what started to happen last week, as Dole stepped up his "character" assault on Clinton, only to step on his own toes in the process. If Dole turns mean, Clinton might inspire voters to give Demo-crats the seats they need to control both arms of Congress. "If the Democrats sweep, it would be a tax-and-spend mandate," Melcher says. "The bond market would go first and the stock market would follow...
...ungainly metal tower, 150 ft. tall, looming above the trees in your front yard. No, such a contraption--a stout monopole topped with a crown of antennas--doesn't yet mar my leafy corner of suburbia. But it will soon, unless I do something about it, and that prospect has spurred me, along with my neighbors, to churn out a torrent of letters, petitions and telephone calls. Why, we wonder, must Dallas-based PrimeCo Personal Communications plop its tower in a residential area of Du Page County, Illinois, when there are plenty of other sites nearby where it wouldn...
...Senate seats and three of four House seats open, Kansas is now one of the most volatile states in the Union this election season--and the Democrats have nowhere to go but up. Some pundits even see the possibility of a Democratic congressional delegation from Kansas next year--a prospect that would make Republican flowers, especially in Bob Dole's home state, droop...
...prospect of being a Wolverine was very attractive to Skelton, who not only grew up going to games, but went to Michigan's training camp every summer until high school...
...California. So is this one last grab for the gold ring, as his campaign insists? Or is it a soberly calculated admission of defeat--and a final effort on behalf of the G.O.P. by a man who has devoted his life to his party? In a panic over the prospect of losing the Republican Congress, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour and House Speaker Newt Gingrich have been pushing Dole toward California, where 52 House seats are up for grabs. Bearing down hard there means abandoning swing states elsewhere, so it could be damaging to whatever remains of his hopes...