Water-system real estate speculators attempted to start a boom when Richmond was connected to the city, but the prospect faded away once direct subway access failed to materialize.
With prospects fading for a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Mr. Clinton appears keen to bolster the position of Mr. Barak at home, where the Israeli faces a rambunctious Parliament when it reconvenes in late October and falling support in public-opinion surveys.
I for one would need to be really quite heavily swaddled in plutocratic comforters before the terror of that prospect faded sufficiently for me to close my eyes and drift off happily again to sleep the day away.
While the boards of both companies agreed to the broad outlines of the deal and its price before the weekend, these people said, one issue was still a sticking point: whether Pfizer would be allowed to back out of the deal if the economy worsened or Wyeth's prospects faded.
As prospects fade that Congress will pass a comprehensive climate bill this year, the EPA has been moving forward to enact regulations that would put costly limits on power plant pollution, making the agency the target of influential industry representatives and some members of Congress.
Too many English prospects fade before they reach maturity from both a physical and a football point of view.
But his big-time prospects faded as a senior, when his team at Burges High School in far west Texas failed to make the playoffs.
But because DSL doesn't provide service fast enough for smooth video streaming on multiple devices, which is what users now demand, its prospects faded.
As prospects fade for a public, or government-run, option as part of health-care reform, key senators are considering another model to create competition for private insurers: member-owned, nonprofit health cooperatives.
When that prospect faded, Mr. Solomon reset his sights on biotechnology.
Meanwhile, AOL struggles with the prospect of fading into irreversible irrelevance, a collection of tired brands for a shrinking core of customers hanging on mainly because they are too lazy to change their AOL.com e-mail addresses.
