In 1916, the impending war provided opportunities for employment in the factories in northern cities attracting unemployed African Americans to migrate north.
Value investors, on the other hand, saw the real estate market's impending nosedive as an opportunity to scoop up undervalued properties or capitalize on unforeseen opportunity.
But for Steven Greenstreet, a 25-year-old former Brigham Young University student, the impending visit was an opportunity to chronicle one of the most virulent culture wars in recent Utah history.
But ultimately what this definition allows you to do is map a new opportunity or impending threat against your company's current ability to meet it, rather than assuming that the odds of success depend mainly on how near or far it is from other competitors.
So, given this convergence of massive opportunity and impending challenge, how can we begin to sort out the legitimately promising businesses from the also-rans?
When too many people at the top look at the business landscape through the same lens, they are likely to miss both impending problems and potential opportunities.
And last week, on cue, individual investors reacted to the market's swoon with predictable bleatings about buying opportunities and impending rebounds.
American officials believe that the impending withdrawal has been an opportunity for Iran to step up its support for militias here, leaving the Iraqi government to hedge its bets between Iranian and American influence.
The chancellor's 11th budget offers little in the way of overall gains for women and appears to be a lost opportunity for the impending Gordon Brown leadership to firmly establish itself as a progressive political force.
This opportunity is the impending mobile gaming boom in South Asia, scheduled to arrive by 2015 for all practical purposes.
If Motorola is planning to release a Razr F (working title), clearly the company sees the impending technology shift as an opportunity to re-enter the market.
