Word: prospectively
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Stock prices can rise sharply on the prospect on improving profits. For many banks, the more likely prospect in the months ahead is for continuing problems...
...this has once again raised the possibility of regime change in the North - perhaps by the kind of implosion seen in Eastern Europe nearly 20 years ago. It's a beguiling prospect. But however much the world may want to see 23 million people released from the grip of a detestable regime, the possibility discomfits some South Koreans. Reeling from the global economic crisis, they aren't sure they can afford sudden reunification. And it absolutely petrifies China, which likes having a buffer state not allied with the U.S. between itself and the South. (See pictures of Kim's rise...
...Shaw, playing college ball at Harvard was the natural choice. The prospect of enjoying high-level academics while also contributing to an already strong softball program was too good of an opportunity to pass...
...question that 3-D has an appeal to an industry that, though the box office has been robust in these recession days, is facing a slump in DVD sales and the prospect of hard times. Monsters vs Aliens, which opened Friday, is bound to be the weekend's big picture. Cameron's 3-D Avatar, his first feature film since Titanic in 1997, is the gotta-see event of 2009; and any film in the process by Spielberg, Jackson, Robert Zemeckis or Robert Rodriguez should be exciting, if only because the directors will be juiced playing with this marvelous...
Until now, Topolanek could say that Klaus held a mainly figurative position, with few formal powers to disrupt the Czech presidency. But under the Czech constitution, the president has the power to nominate a new prime minister, making him the country's kingmaker - a prospect that does little to raise spirits in Brussels...