Word: prospective
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...Louis, Mo.--massive spending and poll numbers above 50% in some national and state surveys. A political body in motion tends to stay in motion unless thwarted, and the Democrats kept rolling along. Given their dire situation, Republicans have done an outstanding job sounding the alarm at the prospect of full Democratic control of Congress and the White House, while also remaining upbeat in public about their own chances on Election Day. But the Democrats have ably balanced a display of growing confidence with a stern warning to supporters about the dangers of complacency...
...away the rest of my summer bored out of my mind and unemployed.As an underaged high school student in a college town, I had already experienced that summer as a season of humbling mass rejection. This was the first year I could officially work, and at the outset the prospect of earning my own pocket money had been fresh and exciting in the way only foreign concepts can be.At first, I went for the cream of the crop—cafés, book shops, the hip record store I frequented downtown—but before long I realized...
When President Calvin Coolidge delivered his 1928 State of the Union address, he noted that America had never "met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time." Americans had a lot to be proud of back then: World War I was thoroughly behind them, radio had been invented, and automobiles were growing cheaper and more popular. Sure, the disparity between the rich and the poor had widened within the past decade, but Americans could now buy goods on installment plans - a relatively new concept - and families could afford more than ever before. Stocks were...
...Fried is concerned about the choice of Sarah Palin when the nation is in crisis,” law professor and Obama adviser Cass R. Sunstein ’75 said in an interview on Friday. “I think his view is that at this time, the prospect of Governor Palin becoming President Palin is a source of concern.” But at least one conservative at Harvard, Ruth R. Wisse, a professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, said that voters should not cast their ballots based on who the vice presidential nominee...
...remain drunk, warm, and out of the police’s reach by staying near the Square.Those who do decide to bare the rules and regulations of this year’s will face an entirely different challenge in Allston: having fun under the constraints of martial law. The prospect of police officers prowling the tailgate grounds will leave little room for gregariousness and glee. The mood that these officers will set—intentionally or not—will inevitably be one of grim law and order—a concept does not jive with the camaraderie of football...