Do I want to spend $100,000 on a year's rent in downtown Calgary or on another line of seismic data on a great oil prospect that unlocks the sweet spot to drill?
And now it turns out that what really terrifies the markets, let alone the suffering unemployed, is the prospect of a second Great Depression — a prospect that has become much more likely thanks to the utter wrongness of elite policy priorities.
"Our nation awakened to an even greater danger: the prospect that terrorists who killed thousands with hijacked airplanes would kill many more with weapons of mass murder".
He's also saved OWS from what was probably its greatest problem, the prospect that it would just fade away as time went on and the days grew colder.
I could have simply thrown money at the problem, or I could have consoled myself by daydreaming about the higher salary and greater spousal prospects that my height apparently affords me (benefits which, I assure you, have yet to materialise).
In the ever-growing and knowledgeable and passionate soccer-blog world, there is an alligator-in-the-sewer theory that great prospects are waiting to be discovered, except that Gulati, that stick-in-the-mud economics professor, and Bradley, that nepotistic coach, ignore dozens of Chicharitos in all corners of this great land.
In an interview, Kim sounded energetic and optimistic about the prospect that the great brute force of growth would keep on lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty — and about the bank's role in nursing the process along.
Publishing its 2008 financial results today, the troubled group said its current outlook continued to be "unpredictable without great prospect of rapid improvement" and that it needed to make further cost savings in the year ahead.
Losing DLA, and being refused PIP, will leave deafblind people unable to manage and push us into even greater isolation and dependence; a prospect that is making us stressed and anxious even now.
The Iraqi army and Iraqi Kurds ousted the jihadists of the Islamic State from a great dam near Mosul, raising the prospect that they may be pegged back elsewhere in the country.
