Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shouldn't you have known there was impending doom...
...threatening to choke the country's economic growth and sap the ebullient confidence that has filled Japanese investors and businessmen in recent years. "The pendulum has once again swung in Japan," says Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute. "It's now over to the doom-and-gloom side, when objectively speaking, Japanese companies remain the strongest in the world...
Drexel is trying to reassure creditors that the bonuses were not doled out because of any sense of impending doom. "Believe me, nobody was shoveling money out the door because they felt the roof was caving in," says Drexel director Roderick Hills, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. "In fact, many executives expressed their confidence by taking their entire bonus in the form of equity." Among them: chief executive Frederick Joseph, who in December elected to take his $2 million-plus bonus in Drexel stock, which now is virtually worthless...
With the score of Saturday night's Harvard-Brown men's basketball game 42-32 at halftime, Harvard Coach Roby was in trouble. In football, a lost headset or clipboard can spell disaster for a coach. In baseball, stolen chewing tobacco always spells doom. But Harvard had lost this season's secret weapon: the second half...
Growing crowds of scientists, workers and tourists have put increasing pressure on the frozen land's fragile ecosystems. More ominous are threats of oil drilling and mining. All agree development must be controlled, but squabbling over how may doom earth's last pristine continent...