Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throw down this challenge to the Democrats who control the House: You have been screaming about the deficit; here is your chance to do something about it. Democrats, predictably, are resisting. They talk of submitting each cut to a vote "on its merits," a process that would doom many of the proposals...
...replace Haile Selassie's regime with a Marxist government, experts said that future starvation waves would be predictable and therefore manageable. Although the experts were correct in the first assertion, they didn't realize that no one would listen to their prophesies, rendering the second meaningless. Warnings of impending doom that began to surface two years ago went virtually unheeded by western governments, the media, relief agencies and Ethiopian officials themselves until it was too late...
...screaming new groups. Where Reagan sought to soothe and cheer Americans, Mondale tried to puncture their complacency with warnings of impending doom and taxes...
...fuss over the mail-order MiGs will not go down in the history books as one of the Reagan Administration's finest hours. The various anonymous Administration sources who were supplying the breathless warnings of Nicaraguan misdeeds sounded less like belligerent hawks than professional Chicken Littles, proclaiming the doom of MiG 21's within range of America's banana supplies. The leaking hysteria became a flood that engulfed even the normally cool-headed Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), who warned that if the MiG's were aboard the Soviet freighters, American military action would be necessary...
EXPECTING. Amy Irving, 31, sloe-eyed actress (Yentl, TV's The Far Pavilions) who plays a pregnant woman in her upcoming film Mickey and Maude; and Steven Spielberg, 36, everybody's favorite cinematic exploiter of childhood fears and fancies (E.T., Gremlins, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom): their first child; early next summer. The couple have no current plans...