Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This could doom the initiative. Reagan's request last year to lump many domestic programs into block grants, a much less ambitious plan than the current one to turn back responsibility and money to the states, foundered on the rocks of the committee system, where it encountered resistance from both parties. As Democrat Leon Panetta of California points out: "The committee chairmen, who are the fathers of these social programs, will not be at all eager to see them terminated...
...reviews. I just go with what I'm feeling. And I get obsessed: I'm always afraid I'm going to die before I complete it. I work from day into darkest night and morning. I've found that in the hours of darkest doom, there will soon be light-so I don't give up. It's then that my subconscious is about to give me an answer...
...1930s, when television was hardly in swaddling clothes, White predicted that it would become "the test of the modern world," capable of "radiance," but likely to produce "an unbearable disturbance of the general peace." Two characteristic sketches deal with The Decline of Sport and the Crack of Doom. Though White does his best, neither is funny. Sport ends in 1985 with a flurry of statistics and a pile-up of 1,482 cars, "a record for eastbound parkways," and 3,000 dead. By that time Americans all take portable radios to football games to hear other sports events, while...
Feelings of impending doom, however, are not in evidence inside RCA. A key reason is Bradshaw. Drawing upon a calm management style honed during 17 years as president of the Los Angeles-based Atlantic Richfield oil company, the new boss, 64, has put an end to years of boardroom intrigues at RCA and given the firm a badly needed sense of renewed confidence in its own future. Says he: "What I have been doing is spending a lot of time finding out what kind of a company this is so that we can decide where we are going...
...fossilized faith that is unique in church annals. The poignant tale of the sect begins in 1549, when Jesuit Missionary Francis Xavier brought Roman Catholicism to Japan. The new creed soon gathered 300,000 followers, including most of the inhabitants of Ikitsuki, but its success also spelled its doom. Fearing the Christians' growth and foreign links, the warlord ruler Hideyoshi and later shogun mounted terror campaigns in which tens of thousands perished, often gruesomely. Christianity was all but stamped...