Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While atomic-energy officials around the world were trying to escape the political fallout from the Chernobyl accident, some of their American colleagues were fearful that the tragedy could doom their industry for years, perhaps even decades, to come. The U.S. industry has long been in deep trouble, and now it has to prepare for new attacks on several fronts...
...Alec in their company. Certainly he doesn't lack exposure-Guinness made more films than any of them with the exception of Lord Lawrence Olivier, who these days will take any part that doesn't require him to move much--but his unique talents by their very nature doom him to relative obscurity...
After that, Engineer bats thundered into action, forecasting doom for the Harvard softball team...
...early as Dec. 17, 1982, the testimony showed, NASA had been concerned enough about the possibility that the O rings might fail during lift-off to designate them as "criticality 1" items, components whose failure would doom the mission. Earlier shuttle flights had indicated that the second ring might be unseated from its groove by the great pressures on the rocket casing during lift-off, and could not always be relied upon as a backup should the first ring fail. Lack of a reliable backup violated a longtime NASA principle. The space agency formally waived the redundancy requirement for these...
TRUMPS OF DOOM, by Roger Zelazny, sold by the Science Fantasy Bookstore...