Word: doom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amid all the doom and gloom and the painful reassessment that must inevitably follow such a setback, Liberals can take heart from one basic fact. Though we were found wanting, our philosophy...
...entered the Guild room, sat once again, stared at the photo once again, felt at ease in old contours once again, was swept over with joy, doom, nostalgia...
...fast-action sequence worthy of Indiana Jones, Para mount and 20th Century-Fox last week played switcheroo with top executives. Paramount Chairman Barry Diller, 42, the man responsible for the studio's long string of recent successes (Indi ana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terms of Endearment, Flashdance), is becoming chairman of 20th Century-Fox. He replaces Alan Hirschfield, 47, who will stay on as a consultant. Marvin Davis, half owner of Fox, wooed Diller by giving him part ownership of the film studio, along with salary and bonuses that will doubtlessly exceed...
...anxiety was high. The suburban living room was still. The press conference finally flickered on the television set, live from New York. If Geraldine Ferraro was going to humiliate herself, and doom the Democrats' chances, at least Walter Mondale would be able to witness the dreadful spectacle at home, in Minnesota, alone except for his wife Joan and a couple of aides...
...doom that Preston is trying to avert is fearsome enough. Some especially nasty types in the Kremlin have hatched a plot to smuggle a small nuclear bomb into England in pieces, assemble the thing and set it off near an American cruise-missile base. The physical damage will not be devastating, except in the immediate area of a few square miles. But the Soviets hope that the explosion will be taken for that of a U.S. nuke gone haywire. Leftists and peaceniks will then redouble their anti-American baying, and the Labor Party, dominated by pro-Soviet operatives, will take...