Word: prospects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fraser said she hopes to bring elementary and secondary school students to the College--offering tours of the campus and answering question--to inform Boston youth about the prospect of attending college...
...other side, however, was the dismal prospect of returning to a barren Bright Hockey Center--a not so unrealistic thought considering the abysmal attendance figures this season...
Other panelists--including Alicia H. Munnell, Drucker Chair in Management Sciences at Boston College, and Robert Kuttner, co-editor of American Prospect magazine--supported the current system...
...Recently, Peking has made it a point to proclaim its delight at the prospect of the U.S.'s depleting its resources in a major land war in Asia. That prospect may seem less pleasing today. Where the Communists almost had victory within their grasp last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Vietnam--and lose face throughout Asia--it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged in wars that they can neither afford nor end. Their blunder came as no surprise...
...that the CPI overstates annual inflation by about a percentage point. That means the low CPI of 1.7% last year might really have been less than 1%--a huge difference. Boskin's startling assertion accelerated the drive to find a new CPI formula while politicians began drooling over the prospect of reallocating billions of dollars freed by reduced CPI-pegged spending...