For some, the look and feel of prospecting has changed little since the great gold rushes of the 19th century: stick a corrugated pan in a shallow creek, sift and hope.
Mr. McCain's assessment of his political prospects had changed, too.
But even if the Public Utilities Commission approves a rate increase that somehow satisfies both consumer groups and Wall Street, analysts contend that the companies' prospects have changed.
But prospects have changed dramatically for Mr. Tilson, an Edgemont native who graduated from the University of Virginia with the class of 2000.
And while his prospects have changed — his label, Roc-A-Fella, has splintered; his crew, State Property, has split; his subgenre, gritty Northeastern hip-hop, has waned — he still sounds like his old self.
Their consumption remains pretty stable, despite some variation in current income, because their overall prospects have changed little.
However, the efforts to explore and exploit geothermal prospects have changed over the years and also with respect to their location along the island chain.
But the law provides an exemption for those employers whose prospects have changed significantly, according to Gordon Berg Gordon Berg, spokesman for the Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Service.
Prospect theory has changed the way economists think about decision making under uncertainty – yet after so many years there have been few applications of the theory and those appearing mostly in finance.
John Ferejohn, a Stanford political scientist, pointed out that "you can already see that the prospect of bailouts has changed expectations in the business world about what role policy makers will or should play.
