Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not make its debt-service payment on May 31, it will have 90 days to find the money. If it cannot come up with funds, then Chemical Bank, as bond fund trustee, or the lenders will be able to declare the bonds immediately due. Such an action would doom the entire project and push WPPSS into receivership, making it the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history...
...evening news may present the doom and gloom; commercials are the good news, celebrating the joys of consumerism...
First of all, he is tired, still groggy from jet lag. He has just returned from Sri Lanka, where he was working on Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom, the sequel to Raiders. Second of all, he is worried about the reception of Jedi. "What if we have finally got to the end of the shaggy-dog story," he asks, "and everybody says, 'That's it?' Technically and logistically, this was the hardest of the three films to make, and all I see is the mistakes and the stuff that doesn't work." Only...
...hype. Because they share the same initial and transplanted nationality, Chia, Enzo Cucchi, 32, and Francesco Clemente, 31, tend to be bracketed together as the "three Cs." In fact they are very different painters. Chia's light-operatic gifts have little in common with Cucchi's mucky, doom-laden earnestness: apoplectic chickens and mud slides in the cemetery, done in umber and black two inches thick. Nor does he seem a forced talent like Clemente, a glib draftsman whose "expressive" pictorial rhetoric is stretched paper thin to cover a paucity of formal skills. (Ah, to be young, overrated...
...because of the absolute moral terms in which their "debate" has been couched--deigns to consider more moderate views. Meanwhile the public remains largely uneducated about the complexities of nuclear strategy instead, individuals take sides based on whether they fear more the gloom of a nuclear holocaust or the doom of Soviet hegemony...