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pro spekt

  • n  the possibility of future success
    his prospects as a writer are excellent
  • n  belief about (or mental picture of) the future
  • n  someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
  • n  the visual percept of a region
  • n  a prediction of the course of a disease
  • v  search for something desirable
    prospect a job
  • v  explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals

  • Tzipi Livni's inability to form a new ruling coalition will mean early elections next year, but they could ultimately boost prospects for an agreement with the Palestinians.
  • As takeover interest in Cadbury grows and with it, the prospect of a big payday for the chocolate maker's shareholders pressure on the firm will mount.
  • Two learned Britons this week looked with foreboding and gloom at America's prospects for postwar prosperity.
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  • James Watson in Forbes
    And as other states and localities go their own ways, we face the prospect that different rules for immigration will apply in different parts of the country - a patchwork of local immigration rules where we all know one clear national standard is... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA New York Daily News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/07/01/2010-07-01_president_obama_says_arizonas_antiillegal_immigration_law_is_ill_conceived.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGOEgMcKWFok3BifkEjmFjQIeuM8w Jul 1, 2010 78288 105293 prospect The trouble began after the Sunday Times Magazine of London quoted Watson as saying that he's inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours...

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