Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent letter to Clinton, Richard Disbrow, chairman of the American Electric Power Co. argued that a coal tax would "burden the steel, auto, metalworking, chemical, plastics, paint, paper and primary manufacturing industries, which rely heavily on coal-fired electricity and carbon-based fuels." Such objections seem likely to doom the levy. "Forget the carbon tax," says a top Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "If you're looking at 1996 -- and they are at the White House -- that would cost them Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania...
...choosing his top team, Clinton has been guided by three considerations: a quest for ethnic and gender diversity; an emphasis on collegiality; and, in the case of his senior economic assistants, a desire that their selection be perceived calmly by the financial markets, whose skittishness could doom his tenure even before it begins. The last two goals have been met. The first, + diversity, has been harder to achieve, but its importance has been misunderstood. Clinton in no way feels obligated to the women's, ethnic and liberal lobbying groups that seem to have driven him to distraction. To Clinton, diversity...
Even Boris Yeltsin joined the chorus of doom when he told the British Parliament in early November that right-wing opponents were hatching plans to sweep away his government and forcibly return Russia to its unhappy past. Yeltsin's opponents claim it is the President himself who aspires to the dictator's throne with a plan to dissolve Russia's legislative bodies and rule by decree. In a country with a 500-year history of autocracy, such warnings resonate deep within the psyche of a public that is experimenting with democratic government for the first time...
...truth, though, there's voodoo afoot, black magic in the air and an ominous sense of doom hanging over Harvard. This team may win every conference game it plays, it may overwhelm Boston College, it may even get a trip to Madison, Wisc. for the Final Four...
...what, critics argue? Evolution is littered with the remains of organisms that didn't make it, and prophecies of ecological doom have replaced nightmares of thermonuclear holocaust. The thinking animal is also the one that worries the most. It should. Wilson's intellectual, aesthetic and moral conception of life on earth suggests that survival may depend on a new age of anxiety...