Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week. "Job security is important to everybody," he said. But the strike also came at an awkward time for the automaker. With stocks of the best-selling Saturn nearly depleted, GM had been losing between $1 million and $2 million a day, which still might doom the company to its eighth consecutive quarter in the red, the longest dry spell in corporate history...
...even doom has nuances, and like Africa it has a thousand layers of meaning. The "margin" of one thing is also the center of something else. Africa has its own "centers," its resources of vitality and resilience. It operates by its own inner dynamics and metaphysics. Africa looks hopeless, but it is not. In many ways the continent is headed in the right direction for the first time in centuries. Real changes for the better are occurring. Africa is evolving African solutions...
...uncertainty over the outcome of the September 20 referendum in France on the Maastricht treaty, which is supposed to lay the basis for a European Union. French voters could decide they do not like the high interest rates dictated by Germany and vote non on the treaty. That would doom it and change the shape of post-cold war Europe...
Making his rounds on New York City's night streets, a drug dealer named John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) feels doom gathering around him. The cops are taking an interest in him, one of his best clients is self-destructing, his boss (Susan Sarandon) is threatening to leave the trade, and an ex-lover (Dana Delany) will have nothing to do with him. In LIGHT SLEEPER, bad things happen to not- so-good people. Writer-director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Patty Hearst) likes to work the margins of American life, and he does so with a certain style. Also with literary...
...including their own families, may voice concern but fail to grasp the depth of the emotional exhaustion, isolation and sense of loss. And many gay men, even when they test negative for the disease and meticulously avoid behavior thought likely to transmit it, live with a constant sense of doom, an anguishing irrational certainty that this virus will someday, somehow, come to get them too. "It's always in the back of my mind, except when it's in the front of my mind," says Mark Mobley, an arts critic at the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. "Whenever...