Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovering, the psychology of political opposition is complicated. Of course, for reasons both patriotic and selfish, you don't want calamity to befall the United States of America. On the other hand, it is hard not to relish a certain gloomy anticipation of seeing your predictions of doom come true. And as a practical matter, bad times are the + usual way the out-of-power side gets back...
...seemed absurd. But that was before the results started coming in from a group of long-term health studies of 10,000 gay men, begun in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Scientists, prodded by AIDS activists who wanted to "study the healthy" and to lift the shadows of doom that surround the disease, have now documented at least 70 cases like Anderson's. Researchers are also beginning to find similarly healthy, long-lived survivors among women and children with HIV. There is now good reason to hope that at least 5% of the estimated 1 million Americans infected with...
...Even so, doom-and-gloom media stories are popping up everywhere. A week ago, the Boston Globe described its state's restaurant business as "limping through the past few years, when about one in every five establishments closed their doors," according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, which is affiliated with the national group. What the article failed to mention was that for every eatery that failed, a new one was launched...
...Jack Sharkey (authors of Jekyll Hydes Again! and "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!"), this musical farce is designed for threadbare theater groups with a taste for tastelessness. "Welcome to the opera!" the opening number announces. "Where gals with lung disease/ Can hit high Cs with ease!/ Their doom is sure to please/ The connoisseur...
...similarly foolish. Correcting such lapses by demanding that the unvarnished truth be told should not be difficult, but getting the congressional Democrats in line is another matter. And since Clinton has apparently abandoned any hope of G.O.P. support for his plan, even a moderate number of Democratic defections could doom the enterprise...