Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walked to the lobby and dialled room 213 from the in-house phone. Many rings. No answer. Nobody home. The prospect of a bed was too tempting, and we headed for the elevator...
Famine in Africa may seem like yesterday's news. This time, however, the prospect of mass starvation is not just the caprice of nature but is largely the work of man. Drought and crop failures have not gone unnoticed. Wealthy donor nations have pledged hundreds of thousands of tons of foodstuffs. Distribution networks exist to allocate the food. Relief convoys stand ready to move it. All that separates millions of malnourished Ethiopians and Sudanese from the food that could save their lives is a handful of stubborn men: President Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia, Lieut. General Omar Hassan el Bashir...
...demand for secession, he knows, he will be pressed for comparable concessions from Estonia and Latvia. And once the secession fever infects the Baltics, the Kremlin fears, what is to stop it from spreading to the other republics? Last week Gorbachev's Politburo ally, Alexander Yakovlev, dubbed this unnerving prospect "the domino effect...
...prospect of Robert Morris going to jail isquite frightening," Friedall said. "This is notsomeone who is comparable to a person who hascommitted a murder. If you look at theevidence...it would appear he'd violated a federalstatute. It would mean the federal penitentiary.He did something that was quite irresponsible andadolescent, but it was not criminal, in theordinary sense of the word...
...many unhappy kids who suffer from extreme shortness, the prospect of even a couple more inches seems worth the trouble. Jonas Devlin has no dreams of being a Larry Bird or a Michael Jordan. His goal is considerably more modest: "I would like to be tall enough so that when I sit, my feet will reach the floor...