Word: doomful
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...Warsaw. In the capital, at least at first, near normality reigned-sunshine, snow and only a few soldiers. "Getting the right picture to show the mood was extremely difficult," reported Burnett. "There wasn't an overwhelming military presence you could photograph. There was only a growing sense of doom...
...some of Wall Street's most influential economists, led by Henry Kaufman of Salomon Brothers and Albert Wojnilower of First Boston, warned that Reagan's goals of deep tax cuts, large increases in defense spending and a balanced budget were inconsistent and impossible to achieve. Nicknamed Dr. Doom and Dr. Gloom, Kaufman and Wojnilower foresaw bulging deficits and towering interest rates if Reaganomics were put into practice...
Nuclear weapons must not be stationed or built in Europe or anywhere on this planet. The human species does not have the right to doom the rest of the earth's inhabitants to destruction. No political or moral ends can be achieved through nuclear arms...
...volume, we stand at Act III, scene II of a tragedy of Shakesperean proportions. There are hints of fatal flaws and impending doom, but no visible resolution Bibliophiles can only eagerly await the next 700 page installment...
...best evidence against King's and Feldstein's verdict, however, comes from other states' experience. The six states which have adopted similar legislation have done so at little cost. Even in Vermont the costs have been negligible, despite prophecies of doom made by bottlers in their massive lobbying effort against the legislation. But King accepted the $100 million figure and repeatedly said it would cost a family of four $80 per year, prohibitively expensive for working families...