Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Survivalists" spark a boom in doom and the profits follow...
That, he argued, was what had happened to the SALT II treaty, which Carter shelved after the Afghanistan invasion seemed to doom all chance of Senate ratification. The U.S. must "continue its firm and sustained response to Soviet aggression against Afghanistan," said Vance, but it must also maintain a larger historical perspective. "When the historian of 1990 looks back upon the year 1980," Vance stressed, "I believe a profound mistake may well be identified: a failure to ratify the SALT II treaty. It is not too late, but it may soon be. I believe that the Senate must ratify...
...government has offered the unions a package of price freezes and tax cuts that, when added to S.A.F.'s proposal, would approximate labor's demand. Gunnar Nilsson, head of L.O., has rejected that approach. Many Swedes fear that the government's hands-off policy spells economic doom. But at week's end strike-bound Swedes were heartened by news that mediators had proposed pay boosts ranging from 6.8% to 7.3%. With that offer, an end to Sweden's costliest quarrel could finally be at hand...
Revenge detonates a little explosion of doom for the sake of personal-and usually rather temporary - satisfaction. But some say the practice of vengeance has its salutary, cleansing effect. Better for the circulation, they say, to liberate that maniacal little Nietzsche doll that jumps up and down inside all of us than to let him tear apart his cage...
...rank candidates. The CCA, and to a lesser extent the Independents, have created slate loyalties that allow them to dominate the powerful City Council even if others in the city elect one or two rising stars with allegiances to neither group. "This new type of voter will spell the doom of the Independent control of the City Council (currently, Independents hold a 5-4 edge over CCA members)," Vellucci predicts flatly. "It would make sense for us to be fighting condos and the CCA to be supporting them," he adds...