Word: prospected
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have been rising sharply for bridge and highway maintenance, prison construction and new schoolrooms for the second wave of the baby boom. The stiffest increases have been in health-care costs. Medicaid spending by states rose 18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone. Thus many of them are struggling with the prospect of big budget cuts and higher taxes, or drawing on reserves. "It's going to be batten down the hatches," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors' Association. "The big question is how deep this recession is going...
...been one who has been convinced that sanctions alone would bring him to his senses." On the same day that Webster spoke before the House Armed Services Committee, Secretary of State James Baker appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to announce that he was "very pessimistic" about the prospect that sanctions alone would work...
...college president who is also a top contender for Harvard's presidency. Just ask the folks at The Dartmouth Review, the school's notorious right-wing magazine and troublemaker. Review members, who have clashed with Freedman many times in recent years, say they are particularly excited at the prospect of Freedman's departure. "Please take him," said Ben Shim, the Review's president...
...vote closed at 6 p.m., the M.P.s gathered in the House of Commons' lobby and awaited the result: Major got 185 votes, Heseltine 131, Hurd 56. As it became clear that Major had missed a majority by only two votes, a large groan of frustration rose up. The prospect of a third ballot was too much to bear after the tension-filled days of the previous three weeks...
Containment is possible, at least theoretically. If Saddam pulls out peacefully, the U.S. and its allies can continue the embargo on military shipments to Iraq and perhaps create a regional security structure. But the Saudis recoil at the prospect of an enduring foreign-troop presence on their soil, even for the purpose of defending their kingdom, and a new region-wide defense pact is easier to conjure than to craft. The Kuwaitis would welcome an American presence indefinitely, but even they would prefer to avoid the complications that would invariably attend an open-ended effort to keep Saddam at home...