Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Catamounts managed only one substantial run the entire game. Beginning at 14:09, they began a three-minute, 17-5 run, narrowing the deficit to 14 points, 61-47. Benton never got into a rhythm, however, and his cold shooting spelled doom for Vermont...
...that the recession is far enough in the past that the threat to people who have hung onto their jobs is over; they can unzip their wallets. Richard Outcalt, president of Seattle-based Outcalt & Johnson Retail Strategists, puts it simply: "There's strong evidence now that the gloom and doom is dead. It just got boring." In New York City, Nancy Few-Smith, a former vice president of New York Telephone who describes herself as a part-time travel agent and "professional shopper," declares, "I'm fed up with the recession." In the past few years, she says...
...brother, his court, and his kingdom in general. With the ambitious militarist Mortimer, Isabella jealously plots Gaveston's banishment and eventual murder. Edward II winds up imprisoned and miserable, failed in his capacities as ruler and husband and deprived of the one human being he ever loved. Passion. Violence. Doom...
...comes to this understanding in the course of her own relationship with Mike, who tries to convert her to his ways--love of nature, literature, gloom and doom skepticism and a dose of televangelism. He only becomes overbearing as she realizes her wants and needs are different. In a reposeful moment in bed with him, she wryly thinks to herself, "We are all suckers for the tender, cozy life." Gradually she pulls away from this relationship. Ruby has always been comfortable with herself, she has always relied on herself to get through life, but by the film...
Begala's argument makes a virtue of necessity: retreating to passivity would doom Clinton for sure. But the polls describe a suspicious electorate that views the President's call for "more efficient" government as a cover for bigger government and more spending, which the voters very definitely do not want...