Word: prospective
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...rejection of his troublemaking. Another autarch actually took a turn toward benevolence all on his own: North Korea's quirky Kim Jong Il reached out kindly to the previously abhorred, non-communist South, summiting gaily with its leader and making Korea's pacification seem, suddenly, like a living prospect. Changes in Russia were more ambiguous as the blank-faced Vladimir Putin took charge. He was at least a sober antidote to the fitful Boris Yeltsin, but his unmoved reaction to the submarine Kursk's demise and his unapologetic bludgeoning of Chechnya showed him to be less than inspiring. Africa...
...starters, he needs to spread the idea that if things get tight for a while, the problem started before he took office. The last recession occurred during his father?s presidency. He doesn?t want the next one called Bush 2. But he also hopes to use the prospect of trouble ahead as a rationale for his proposal to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. As he said last month, ?A tax-relief plan for everybody serves as an insurance policy against a potential economic downturn...
...Touch-screen technology is used by less than one-tenth of the voters in America. There are few complaints, and the prospect of a nationwide network of Automatic Voting Machines, with the flashing lights and soothing blips that Americans understand, is now in vogue: See your ballots. Pick your candidates. Confirm. Press Enter. Maybe they print out receipts in case the software crashes...
...interest rates, and it's likely to work. He can't bring back the tech sector to its former glory, and neither can Bush, but a few interest-rate cuts might juice up the Dow and put some money back in the system for business borrowers. For Bush, the prospect of a big across-the-board tax cut is more attractive than it's been in years, but he'd better make sure it's fiscally sound enough get a few kind words from Greenspan, who got the inflation-hawk bond markets behind deficit reduction by calling Clinton's first...
...told Israelis there was no alternative to the kind of negotiated settlement with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he nearly concluded at Camp David last July. Though Israelis have lost all faith in Arafat, Barak is gambling that they won't want to turn their backs entirely on the prospect of a peace deal. A vote for Sharon, Barak's campaign will say, means just that...