Word: prospectively
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...history because of its implications for democratic reform. Chan faces the pro-Beijing camp's anointed candidate, former security chief Regina Ip. Defeat for Ip will be interpreted as a vote for Chan's political platform, which includes the introduction of universal suffrage by 2012. It is an anxious prospect for mainland China, which vets candidates for Hong Kong's top offices. Yet Chan says she is uncowed by Beijing's disapproval: "I'm putting my money where my mouth...
Larry Moon made the trip last January with his wife. ceo of the Sandstone Group, a family-owned holding company in Milwaukee with 150 employees, Moon, 53, says he was an unlikely prospect for a week of vegetarianism, quiet study and yoga. "A year ago, if you said I'd go a week without eating meat, I would have said you are crazy." But after six days with Swamiji, Moon is not only "about 90%" vegetarian; he's also a man transformed. He now rises early every morning to study Vedanta. "I've not missed a single day," he says...
...might amaze many that the mere prospect of Hillary Clinton moving back in to the White House can inspire such a degree of mercenary desertion in our country’s chaste crusaders. Granted, she has long served as the anathema of the American right, but in substance she’s just as pro-choice, just as tough on guns, and perhaps less Orwellian a presence than Giuliani. Both of these frontrunners have shrunk away from adopting any novel idea in favor of the senseless and discouraging groupthink we euphemize as “electability...
...faces the prospect of strike action amid claims by the broadcasting union BECTU and the National Union of Journalists that the overhaul will threaten the quality of public broadcasting in Britain. A move to outsource 6,000 jobs in 2005 was met with a one-day stoppage that blacked out several BBC stations...
...they hit pay dirt, it's not just that ecosystem that could be endangered. So could the ban on mining on the Antarctic continent itself, which can be lifted by unanimous agreement at any time. That is highly unlikely, but just a couple of decades ago, so was the prospect that the ice caps would melt. The British claim, and those that are sure to follow, amounts to a long-shot move that enables resorting to a future temptation. For the sake of Antarctica, let's hope we've got beyond oil and gas before that temptation ever arises...