And a handful of Republicans who would be the most obvious prospects for supporting it were resisting, saying they were alarmed by the measure's mounting price tag and its $78 billion impact on the deficit.
Members of the panel, headed by the former chief counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, said a dozen graduate students told them at a public forum last month that faculty members had threatened to hurt their academic prospects for supporting a union.
Such bonds can be harder to break than handcuffs, especially when a young person has been told for years that they aren't worth anything, and they have few skills, no diplomas, and few prospects for supporting themselves outside the sex industry.
These ex-convicts, with almost no rehabilitation and little prospect for supporting themselves, return to the already-struggling communities that were rendered that way in part because so many men are being extracted on such a massive scale.
But Ms. Desai said she was optimistic about the prospects for financial support.
A day later, on November 15th, 1908, the Empress Dowager herself died.Revolutionaries such as Sun Yat-sen followed these events closely; as people became disillusioned by the prospects for reform, support for his revolutionary ideas grew.
The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon appear to have strengthened, not weakened, the prospects for Congressional support of President Bush's missile defense plan.
With its debt now down to $8,000, Mr. Hablenko said, and with prospects for financial support from local corporations, the company decided to take the plunge with "The Nutcracker" this season.
The prospects for federal support of science in schools across the United States took a turn for the better this week as a key congressional panel weighed in on the annual budget process.
