Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVER since the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's resounding victory in the Michigan caucuses, political pundits have been forecasting doom for the Democrats...
...revival of manufacturing is not quite so remarkable as it may seem. U.S. industry was beleaguered in the early 1980s, but not so close to the brink of doom as many observers believed. Between 1970 and 1984, manufacturing output rose 53%, almost as strong an increase as the 62% in services. While many companies laid off factory workers, new industrial firms sprang up and others expanded, so that the total number of manufacturing jobs remained fairly constant. Meanwhile, employment in service businesses shot up 47% between 1970 and 1984, but that was partly because productivity growth was much lower...
...years ago, the heavily-favored Crimson met the Knights in the ECAC semis. Clarkson's Luciano Borsato, who is still around, put in an empty-net goal in the game's final seconds to doom Harvard...
...seems like only yesterday that it was next year. Paul Erdman's The Panic of '89 was on the best-seller lists, sounding financial doom in the midst of a powerful bull market. That was, in fact, in the winter of '87, nine months before reality iced Wall Street. Erdman does not have to worry; quicker than a program trade, here he is, hedging his investments with a sixth novel. The Palace offers no scenario for economic disaster. Quite the contrary. The book is a racy tale of how one clever and gutsy (though not especially honest) fellow can rise...
...only one of the earliest recorded responses to the spinning wheel of fortune. Ever since, the rubble of old realms has teased and provoked imaginations. In the 18th century, a visit to Rome inspired Gibbon to write an enduring history of imperial decline. Romantic poets found the gloom and doom of antiquity irresistible. Envisioning an ancient toppled monument in a barren desert, Shelley conceived an epitaph that was both ironic and admonitory: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In a softer temper, Poe allowed the face of a beautiful woman...