On Wall Street, as in other parts of the business world, race and ethnicity have always been significant factors in determining one's prospects for employment and promotion.
Using all his ingenuity in finding and exploring data, he then examines whether being given a distinctively black or white name affects one's prospects in life.
Failure to publish in the journal, many say, can adversely affect one's prospects for jobs and promotions.
Poverty is particularly frightful from the lens of old age, when there are few, if any, opportunities to enhance one's prospects and the only escape hatch seems to be death.
Since Taiwan elected Chen Shui-bian, a onetime supporter of independence, as president in March, being identified as a person who favors independence -- or who even seems to -- has become a sure way to derail one's prospects in China.
There Rawls defines FEO so it requires only that the socio-economic status into which one is born has no impact on one's competitive prospects.
Even now a record of psychological consultation is feared in the military as a black mark on one's career prospects, which may itself be one reason that help is not sought by those most at risk.
Like the effect that incarceration or not having a college degree has on one's job prospects, the direct annual medical costs for obese patients may be as much as $1,429 higher than their non-obese counterparts.
There are different criteria that can be invoked for adequacy, but the most plausible ones are based on the quality of one's life prospects: enough for life prospects worth living, enough for basic subsistence life prospects, or enough for "minimally decent" life prospects.
That's true regardless of one's view on the morality of contraception or one's level of concern about the prospect that some of these drugs can serve as abortifacients.
