Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miss way to make a living, is getting to be as nerve-racking as sitting through a Steven Spielberg thriller. Last week videocassette retailers were in an uproar over the disorderly debut of the home-video version of Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Disgruntled shopkeepers claimed that some stores belonging to such giant chains as K mart, Wal-Mart and Waldenbooks had taken an unfair lead on competitors by putting the popularly priced ($29.95) Paramount blockbuster on sale as much as a week before its official release date. The chain stores denied purposely jumping the start...
...Poets' Theatre burned to the ground in thelate 1960s, and while some people continued itsperformances elsewhere, it was "never the same,"said Master of Ceremonies Peter Davison. "The firespelled doom for the group...
...regular-and post-season games and walked off with the world championship? Never. Their fans stayed till the last out while the Boston fans could do nothing more civil than taunt Darryl Strawberry (for whom the Sox would trade their whole team) in the face of their own impending doom...
...almost certainly backed Reid's takeover, but the issue of such unsavory support soon became academic. In 1881 Reid married Elisabeth Mills, whose father had an immense fortune: "The Mills millions turned the paper into a hereditary possession . . . In that loss of dynamism were planted the seeds of its doom...
Repeated prosecutions alone will not put the organization out of its deadly business. Veteran observers of the Mob recall the prediction of the imminent demise of the Chicago Outfit in 1943 when its seven highest hoods were convicted of shaking down Hollywood movie producers. The bell of doom seemed to be tolling nationwide in 1963 when Joseph Valachi's disclosures set off an FBI bugging war against the families. In 1975 the most successful labor racketeering prosecution in U.S. history was supposed to have cleaned up the terror-ridden East Coast waterfront from Miami to New York. None of those...