Here is the man who, with his own mentor, Cus D'Amato, nurtured the young Mike Tyson for four years, taking him from "smokers"—boxing nights in illegal Bronx fight clubs to stunning victories in the Junior Olympics, with the clear prospect of millions in the offing.
Neither a job nor an apartment — not even the clear prospect of either — awaited him.
Given the clear prospect of failure, it might seem odd that Jordan risked its prestige to set up the meeting.
A major deterrent is that Rawabi is situated in territory under Israeli military occupation, a situation that has no clear prospect of changing despite the start of formal peace talks next week.
Now, there is no clear prospect of a quick fix for Microsoft, as the center of gravity in computing continues to move away from the personal computer, Microsoft's stronghold, and to the Internet.
The conclusion of the talks without agreement on even a modest confidence-building measure or the clear prospect of future talks was striking, given that all sides seemed to have incentives to keep the conversation going, and to avoid talk of military intervention.
If you are one of the nearly five million American workers who have been unemployed for over six months, or one of the six million Spaniards, three million Italians or 1.3 million Greeks without a job or a clear prospect of finding one, this amounts to a tragedy.
More recently, the EU has spurned Georgia's plea for a mission to monitor its border with Russia.Few doubt that durable democracy-building in Ukraine will be much easier if Ukraine has a clear prospect of EU membership within a meaningful time-frame.
Asked about the more than 1,500 people in detention on Nauru and Manus with no clear prospect of resettlement, he told interviewer David Speers: "I have the same concerns about the situation of people on Manus and Nauru as you do, as all Australians do, as the minister, Mr Dutton, does.
Waugh viewed existence with a Manichean eye, and feared for himself and his soul in a fallen and still falling world: the Church, Hastings points out, 'offered a safe and solid structure, a discipline, an ordered way of life which, once adopted, held out a clear prospect of salvation'.
