Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convince those terrified consumers to do that may be to persuade them that things are about to get much worse. That means printing money. Some economists, led by Paul Krugman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, think that inflation -? and, more important, the prospect of more inflation to come -? may provide the crucial incentive Japan needs. "By forcing prices up and eroding the value of the yen," says Baumohl, "you might convince people that whatever they?re going to buy, they?d better buy now, because in a month it?ll cost more." The same goes for saving -? why hoard...
...lamented the plight of "unfortunate males" with their "delusions of adequacy," and chided The Crimson--"that fountain of infallibility, source of effable and ineffable truth [and] arguably the best campus daily"--for calling the prospect of co-education "ridiculous" in an editorial published earlier this century. He even touched on the "universal urge to merge," which drove fear into the hearts of Harvard's male administrators...
Gerry said his class syllabus was planned before he knew of the renovations but that he was excited when he learned of the prospect...
...Yugoslavian military presence allowed to remain in the province. One indicator of the progress of peace talks is Ahtisaari's schedule. He's indicated that he'll accompany Chernomyrdin to Belgrade Wednesday if there's sufficient agreement Tuesday to make "to make a joint trip to Belgrade a sensible prospect." The answer to that question may now be determined as much by pollsters as by diplomats...
...publicly adored for his boyishness, it must be hard to take on the trappings of adulthood. Perhaps that is why, despite signs of a comeback, Grant still pretends he is not fully committed to acting. "There's the ever increasing prospect of just...stopping," he says. "It would be such bliss." He dreams of taking up writing again. In his lean years he wrote book reviews and comedy sketches; he even worked on a novel. "It was called Slack," he says, "and it was about someone with no job, strangely enough...