Word: prospects
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Stressing that the situation is far from hopeless, Basheer did add that there was little prospect of a quick peace in the Middle East...
...capital campaign hasn't shaken Rochester up yet. At a luncheon meeting last January about 20 local alumni gathered to evaluate the prospect for donations, but no one has given the Campaign much thought since. And the Harvard Club doesn't expect it to cause a major upheaval, either. "The only way it might really affect us is by making it harder for us to get people to pay dues, with the competition from the fund drive," Rider says...
Faced with the prospect of a winter with expensive heating oil in short supply, the Cambridge City Council last night approved a series of emergency measures designed to stave off the cold for the city's poor...
...going to nominate him by assault." In a way, it is now or never for Kennedy. Democratic Party leaders think they need him more than ever before; he must heed their call or risk mortally offending them. Democratic officeholders are showing signs of panic at the prospect of running on a ticket headed by Carter. A New England poll indicates that there would be a 16-point difference in the number of Democrats who turn out to vote if Kennedy is at the top instead of Carter. Democratic Senators, in particular, feel endangered. Next year 24 of them...
...That prospect is upsetting to the Carter Administration, and not just because of this country's abiding, almost sentimental "special relationship" with its former colony.* Washington is concerned about preserving the Philippines as its main military springboard in the Far East. In return for $500 million in military assistance over the next five years, the U.S. by treaty has "unhampered use" of the huge (97 sq. mi.) naval facility at Subic Bay and Clark Air Force Base on Luzon. Those installations face Indochina across the South China Sea. They played an important role in the Viet...