Word: prospects
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...mock rebellion is a protest against a redistricting plan under which Martha's Vineyard will lose the seat that it has had in the Massachusetts legislature for 285 years. The islanders are distressed at the prospect of finding themselves, in the words of one angry writer to the Vineyard Gazette, "in the horrendous clutches of Taxachusetts" without representation. Rebels point out that civic anger on Martha's Vineyard is not to be lightly taken. The last time the island was denied direct representation was in 1692, when it belonged to New York; Vineyarders promptly seceded and joined Massachusetts...
Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights for Concorde at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation...
Another promising prospect was discovered by U.S. Agriculture Department scientists: a supersweet calorie-less substance (a thousand times sweeter than sugar) made from an extract of grapefruit rinds. At the University of Pennsylvania, researchers have isolated powerful protein sweeteners from tropical berries. Yet until such substances are tested, approved and come to market, Americans will have to accommodate to a new reality: that life may quite literally no longer be as sweet...
...increasing prospect of a disastrous drought had ramifications far beyond the West. It raised once again basic questions of how the nation should use one of its most vital resources, just how much population growth the available water can sustain. As the U.S. faced what scientists termed the most serious drought conditions anywhere on the globe, a world perennially short of food might not be able to look to America to ease its hunger. Domestic food prices seemed certain to increase, job layoffs could follow as water-and hydroelectric-hungry industries are forced to reduce their operations. Added...
...centuries the presence of fairies helped temper parental rage at the misbehavior of children; the ethereal little devils were responsible. When things went bump in the night, it was far better to suspect the hobgoblins than creatures more substantial and threatening. Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous life beyond the reach of the wealthiest voluptuaries. The highest compliment Edmund Spenser could pay Elizabeth I was to call her the Faerie Queene. The Little People could do everything that the big people could...