Word: prospects
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...Sponsors and broadcasters are expected to shoulder $1.1 billion of the cost, but Games promoters still have to raise $250 million from corporations. So far, none of the sponsors--among them Coca-Cola, IBM and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (a Time Inc. magazine)--have indicated they will pull out, but the prospect worries local politicians. "If the Games don't break even," says Salt Lake councilwoman Deeda Seed, "we'll be handed a tax bill we can't afford." Already, US West has pointedly asked the Salt Lake committee if there will be more "surprises." The answer may be a long time...
...save the world by regenerating the human race just as she is assaulted by the roaring and stamping of the rhinoceroses outside. In the end it is she that is the most alone and upon whose shoulders the final choice falls. Her loneliness grows as she considers the prospect of living out Berenger's deranged dream of resistance. Looking out in all directions at the sea of rhinoceroses, she says sadly, "Those, those are people. They look happy. They feel good in their skin. They don't seem crazy. They're very natural. They had reasons to change." When Berenger...
...August testimony because a First Lady does not have the option of tossing her husband's things over the Truman Balcony onto the lawn. But as summer turned to fall, the state of their union was becoming a burning political question. Republicans didn't have to talk up the prospect of his resigning; Democrats were doing it for them. Even his most reliable friend, luck, was giving Bill Clinton a cold shoulder: Saddam was mocking him, Russia was collapsing, and so were the world markets...
Even a smattering of Republicans applauded. When he was done, Democrats began an ovation that lasted for more than five minutes. But that momentary prospect of reconciliation evaporated. When the vote to impeach the President on the first article of impeachment passed the 218 mark, there was a moment of quickly stifled applause in the chamber. Mostly there was nothing--no acknowledgment of what had just happened, no electricity in the air. A short time later, a House Republican who had just voted against the President pulled a reporter aside. "He had it coming," the lawmaker said of Clinton...
...which suggests that Yucca Mountain is not the real issue. "The real issue," says Lemonick, "is the future of nuclear facilities. If no permanent place to store nuclear waste is found, these facilities will have to be shut down." That is ultimately the aim of the activists, and a prospect the government is not prepared to accept. This impasse is likely to become the nuclear Cold War of the next decade...