Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SCIENCE: How Doom Came to Mesopotamia...
...woman (the incandescent Maureen Anderman) whom he knew three decades before. The youthful infatuation ended with her offering herself and his declining, not out of prudishness but from a lifelong premonition that something terrible was going to happen and from a courtly determination not to have anyone share his doom...
...white, heterosexual, female virgin who never used intravenous drugs and was infected during dental treatment, Kimberly Bergalis was all but universally termed an "innocent" victim of AIDS. To gay men with AIDS, however, this locution was profoundly upsetting: it implied that they were "guilty" and deserved their doom. Many felt that the Bergalis family let itself be used by hatemongers and that Kimberly's plea for universal testing of health-care workers would wrongly shift emphasis to safeguarding the "innocent" mainstream instead of finding a cure...
...Like Jones, Koresh fashioned a tight-knit community that saw itself at desperate odds with the world outside. He plucked sexual partners as he pleased from among his followers and formed an elite guard of lieutenants to enforce his will. And like Jones, he led his followers to their doom...
Which is why Clinton's prospects from here cannot be rated all bad. It's true that the lost stimulus package will have a multiplier effect. Democrats like Senator Patrick Leahy predict doom for Clinton's new Russian-aid package because helping unemployed Russians is "self-evidently a tough sell" when "the jobs program for Americans is dead." And the men who control fiscal legislation, Senator Pat Moynihan and Representative Dan Rostenkowski, have signaled their displeasure with the investment tax credit and other Clinton revenue changes. "We invested a lot of time and spent a lot of political capital closing...