Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guise sympathetic to the audience. But the actor strengthens in the second half of the opera, after Macheath has made his decision to visit the whores on Thursday as usual, knowing the police are after him. He acquires the stature that comes with a man headed compulsively to his doom: Bellucci dispenses with Romanticism, as Macheath himself is stripped by circumstance...
...Except that Villanueva bobbled and then booted Turner Swan's snap, and Cornell defensive tackle Steve Duca fell on the ball at the Harvard six. It seemed that once again the big play--remember the blocked-punt touchdown by Holy Cross--would spell Harvard's doom...
...brief period last week it looked ominously as if the bottom were about to drop out of stock markets around the world. But looming doom proved a sucker's bet. In one of the dizziest roller-coaster rides of recent times, stock markets in Tokyo, London, New York and elsewhere slumped and surged and careered wildly down and up. Yet when the dust settled, share prices in most cases were pretty much back to where they were before the week began, and in New York, they were up substantially. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 of Wall Street...
Suspicion of impending doom because of the elimination of species stems from the Ehrlichs' first and constantly invoked example, which, sad to say, is laughable. "Imagine that, just before you are about to board a jet plane, you see a man busily prying rivets out of its wings. As you rush in a panic back down the gangplank, he calls out, "Don't worry, I've taken a lot of rivets out already and the wing hasn't fallen off yet!" This scenario is supposed to be analagous to losing a few more species: One more might not matter...
...most recent gloom-and-doom predictions came from the Urban Institute in Washington. It was built on groundbreaking studies conducted by Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Institute economists calculated that individual donations to institutions should drop many billions of dollars lower between 1981 and 1984 than they might have been under the old tax laws...