Word: prospectively
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...example, or that the defendants wrongfully disclosed a private fact about Plame - there may be enough ambiguity about what really happened to propel them beyond a motion to dismiss and into discovery, a process that allows each side to demand piles of information from the other. That's a prospect an already shaky White House surely wants to avoid...
...Korean Cloner Hwang is down but not out Cloning pioneer Hwang Woo Suk admitted in court last week that he falsified much of his data. He could get three years in jail, a prospect that doesn't seem to daunt him; he plans to open a new lab in Seoul this month...
...Jong Il will be dissuaded by failure. With enough plutonium to make six to eight nuclear warheads and a cache of medium-range missiles, Kim is currently a menace to his Asian neighbors. With nukes and a fully functioning intercontinental missile, he can threaten the U.S. too--and the prospect of bullying his greatest nemesis seems simply too delightful for Kim to resist...
...preemptive attack - won't do much to calm Washington's concern over North Korea's steady march to strategic nuclear capability. The Taepodong-2 is believed by U.S. intelligence to have three stages, which would could allow its payload to reach anywhere in the U.S. And that prospect has brought back into sharp focus the debate over U.S. missile defense, which had been largely obscured since September...
...year-old Omar Khadr pose that warranted his detention with adults? If there is evidence, then put him on trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany