Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doom hangs on this grandly hewn novel like fog on the Cliffs of Moher. Colman Brady, a Tipperary bridegroom, waiting for the dawn of his wedding day. wakes his brother and sister for a nocturnal trek. Their goal is "a rock shadow over the village, at once enchanting and threatening"-one of those mysterious neolithic monuments that mark the fringes of Western Europe, ancient altars still defying the new Christian God. Chilled, the two siblings retreat. Brady greets the sun alone with exhilarated hope. It is a false dawn. A chill grips Brady's life for four decades...
...cater only to the maximization of profits is to invite corporate doom," he says "In this country, we've developed corporate enterprise by reason of the will of the people. The only way that we will continue to have the support of the people who enfranchised us is to perform in ways that are socially desirable. If we do not, somebody will blow the whistle on the corporate enterprise system...
...filed thousands of words for the story written by Associate Editor Burton Pines, got a quite different impression of the mood of the Navy when he attended a high-ranking strategy forum at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Says Nelan: "The atmosphere was awash in gloom and doom. The admirals could not understand why America's seapower was, as they saw it, being cut back to the danger point. They were puzzled as much as angry, feeling misunderstood and ill-used...
...reject the service's arguments, stressing that the carriers have become extraordinarily vulnerable when they push close to the Soviet Union. Just as the introduction of sea-based aircraft eventually ended the battleship's reign, so the cruise missile, with its potential for pinpoint accuracy at long range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy's carriers could survive off the coast of Norway, where they are certain to be blitzed by swarms of Soviet submarines and land-based bombers as soon as hostilities erupt...