Slowdowns often occur despite seemingly sound prospects: both Brazil in 1980 and Japan in 1991 looked like juggernauts, yet they managed scarcely any growth at all in real GDP per person over the following 20 years.
On offer to the investors from the highly developed economies are sound prospects in countries whose infrastructures -- limited telecommunications systems, poor roads, rail and port facilities, sometimes dilapidated cities -- hold the promise of exponential improvement.
Johnson is looking for outfits that are trading for a bit less and yet have sound prospects for pushing earnings higher.
He had sounder prospects in Turin, where Umberto Agnelli, head of Fiat and president of Juventus, offered him a then princely £20,000 a year – and a chartered plane to fly in his friends from England after every home match.
So it's hard to explain why my own reaction - the one you have before you can think - was that the whole thing sounded, in prospect, highly enjoyable.
As frightful — or bizarrely normal for Los Angeles — as this all sounds, the prospect of listening to more than four hours of commuting-themed music could frighten off would-be downloaders of Mr. Elkins's opus.
He said a dialogue with it would be resumed "at some point in the future", which hardly sounds imminent.The prospect of a Clinton visit was part of an extraordinary flurry of diplomatic activity surrounding the reclusive North Korean dictatorship, sparked in part by a "sunshine policy" of friendly overtures initiated by Mr Kim.
Creates A Surround-Sound Effect: Prospects that continue to hear your message are more likely to recall it.
This may sound like a prospect far in the future, but in Foursquare's New York offices it's already here.
That didn't sound promising, the prospect of trying to get Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matusi out with a snapping tendon.
This does not sound a bad prospect: but we should not deny that it may produce outcomes describable as unfair.
