Word: prospects
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...million a year. The primary lure: the chance to join Sam Donaldson as co-anchor of Prime Time Live, the new weekly show that will debut this Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT. In addition, ABC dangled occasional fill-in anchor duty on World News Tonight and Nightline. The prospect of losing Sawyer so rattled CBS's bigwigs that they virtually handed her a blank check in an effort to keep her; then, when she was irretrievably gone, they ran out and hired another high-priced star, NBC's Connie Chung, to fill the gap and save some face...
...Socialists force elections in the parliament's lower house before next year, as they hope to do, there is also the remote possibility that for the first time in party history, the L.D.P. will be banished to the back benches. To avert that prospect, warns L.D.P. legislator Shirakawa, "we need to find the reasons for our losses and then show the people that we have corrected them." That is a tall order to fill, and the L.D.P. has no time to lose...
...prospect of vigorous trade (and not just in black-market blue jeans...
What all this means to capitalists is the prospect of a more prosperous world. The two most obvious benefits...
...computer executives greeted the plan with mild interest. While a spokesman for Apple noted that "we are pleased with the decision," he added that Soviet-bloc countries lack the marketing skills and hard currencies necessary to produce strong sales volume. Even so, hackers in Moscow were excited by the prospect of more American computers. "This is very important to us," said a Soviet computer importer. "Almost every day we have customers who come to our office ready to do business...