"No one really knows," Wendy Orent, an expert on the former Soviet program, concluded last month in American Prospect, a liberal magazine.
One Saturday morning not long ago, Markowitz attended a coffee-and-dog-biscuits gathering, held by a group called fido, which stands for Fellowship for the Interests of Dogs and their Owners and meets once a month in Prospect Park.
It has been signalling for some time that a December rate rise is in prospect: the November jobs' report was the last piece of the jigsaw.
If a report in last month's Prospect magazine is to be believed, its chief executive, Jonathan Kestenbaum, has been vigorously lunching those around Team Cameron.
That would position him to face Ollanta Humala, a fierce antiglobalization nationalist, in a runoff in June — a prospect alarming to the country's business class.
The Assembly passed its version in January, but prospects in the Senate had been considered uncertain.
The Post reported in June that many prospects in the Dominican Republic had injected animal drugs, including steroids.
The finding, from a study of tumors transplanted into mice and reported this month in Nature Medicine, raises the prospect of one day treating prostate cancer with a drug that shrinks breast tumors in women.
In shipping out perhaps their best all-around defender this season and one of their glue players in Muzzin, the Kings acquired Toronto's first-round draft pick in June, forward prospect Carl Grundstrom and defenseman prospect Sean Durzi.
In September the prospect of new talks appeared sufficiently distant to merit some backsliding on accession.
At the Fed's last meeting, in June, the prospect of deflation was discussed for the first time this year.
