Word: prospectively
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...there's a cost. For all of the people spurred into having an adult conversation about the tradeoffs and Vargas' decision to scale back her professional career to be a mom there will be plenty who will not. For a public woman about to make Vargas' choice, the prospect of a magazine turning her choice into the subject ofprovocative editorial art won't make her decision easier. It'll be great when women can make the choice Vargas did and the world yawns. Mom would love Couric and Vargas because she would know how tough it is to do what...
...based mobile technologies are challenging the dominance of traditional cellular networks - a shift that has left the carriers scrambling for a strategy as they increasingly face the prospect of competing head-on with their long-term collaborators, the handsetmakers. At stake? Potentially nothing less than the structure of the $600 billion worldwide mobile industry. Motorola ceo Ed Zander says: "There's going to be a lot of turmoil in the next couple of years...
...used their laptop to access the Internet wirelessly at a public place equipped with a "hot spot." Although a version of the more powerful, farther-reaching WiMax wireless network that works seamlessly with handheld devices probably won't be ready until next year, handsetmakers are already giddy at the prospect. With WiMax's roots in the Internet, the reasoning goes, mobile networks based on that technology will be able to deliver the multimedia goods to mobile-phone customers better than traditional cellular networks. Motorola chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior says WiMax offers "three times the data transfer and half...
...Harvard women’s hockey team, it was not turkey but the prospect of defeating Quinnipiac and Princeton to claim the top spot in the ECAC that made mouths water this Thanksgiving weekend. And two Crimson rookies may have been the hungriest of all. Freshman defender Cori Bassett scored her first collegiate goal and assisted three other scores for Crimson (9-1-0, 9-1-0 ECAC) in a 6-1 triumph over Quinnipiac (4-11-0, 3-8-0) Friday night in Northford, Conn. Then in Saturday night’s matchup in Princeton, N.J., rookie netminder Christina...
...tanks rolled into Gaza, and Israeli forces used aircraft to fire missiles killing suspected Palestinian commanders. The Palestinians tried to counter this assault by sending a swarm of civilians to the house of a militant commander who was the intended target of Israeli air strikes. Faced with the prospect of killing so many Palestinian civilians, the Israeli planes veered away. At one Israeli checkpoint, a Palestinian grandmother belted with explosives blew herself up and only lightly injured her intended victims, the Israeli sentries. In a video filmed earlier, the suicidal granny had claimed she had been driven to such...