Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sees the father of her toddler son, he is married to another woman. In a desperate moment, Kim does the only thing she can think of to force the father to take his son to the U.S. With her suicide, a story that has been passionate and thrilling turns doom struck, and the hope for which she gives up everything is deliberately left hanging. As she dies, the person holding and comforting the child is not the father nor his new wife nor an American friend on the scene but the Engineer, who has viewed the boy chiefly...
...Bashir Samourai, a member of the Democratic Movement, the opposition has been in touch with the Iraqi military. In the event of a coup, he said, "they would then call us to come and participate." Washington knows that to give tangible support to such a scheme would only doom it to illegitimacy in the eyes of most Iraqis. So until the phone call from an Iraqi officer comes, if it ever does, the plotters are pretty much on their...
...more devious suggestion. Zebra-mussel spawning, he notes, is triggered by odors wafting from phytoplankton. These chemical cues ensure that the eggs hatch when the food supply is plentiful. But what if synthetic scents were dabbled like perfume above the mussel beds? A premature spawn, says Ram, would surely doom most of the larvae...
...forcing Saddam to capitulate. We doubt, however, that the costs of sanctions, as high as they are, will ever exceed the costs in Saddam's mind of withdrawing from Kuwait and surrendering his current status as the world's most feared Arab leader--a concession that would likely doom his regime, if not his life...
...recent study by researchers at Michigan State University concluded that this year's graduating seniors will face the worst job market in at least two decades. Career advisors here, however, promise that Harvard students won't feel the pinch too much. "In what seems to be a gloom and doom year for recruiting, the Harvard students definitely seem to have an advantage," says Judy Murray, recruiting coordinator for the Office of Career Services...