Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protests at Seattle: those who wanted environmental protections integrated into trade agreements were accompanied by those who dumped foreign steel into the ocean for the crime of being too cheap. The perception of a U.S. in favor of free trade only where it serves our interests could doom any attempt to improve environmental and labor standards abroad and must be addressed in our negotiating tactics...
...brothers had many happy memories of playing tabletop arcade machines like Frogger and Centipede in their father's garage. Now they wanted to take the new 3-D environment pioneered in the shooting game Doom and use it for something a little more cerebral, something set in the tombs and catacombs of Egypt. The protagonist was to be a little different too. Says Smith: "As soon as you give a male character guns, he becomes a stereotype. We always knew we wanted a female...
...anti-Israeli rhetoric uttered in Mrs. Clinton's presence during her Middle East trip would torpedo her campaign. Despite New York's large Jewish vote and the tabloid media's best efforts, Suha Arafat's remarks are hardly likely to turn into one of those "-gate" tropes that could doom her campaign (the Palestinians hate the Israelis - who knew?), especially after Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave her a ringing endorsement as a friend of Israel. But what the incident may have shown is that the trappings of First Ladyhood, which had given her campaign its original bounce, have now turned...
Fortunately, the AIDS story has not been all gloom and doom. Less than two years after AIDS was recognized, the guilty agent--human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV--was identified. We now know more about HIV than about any other virus, and 14 AIDS drugs have been developed and licensed in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...There is something fundamentally mysterious about revolving doors. They are doors, and yet they can never be successfully knocked on, left open, or used to pull out rotten teeth. Moreover, they can take you right back to where you started. They are the campus's little turbines of doom, with faces smashed against their walls and students flying out of them, screaming. The "scoot" and The Superman are brave attempts to navigate these treacherous passageways, to tame the wild spinners...