Word: dooms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...brief attention spans, bred by a lifetime of 30-second commercials and trigger-happy video games, doom the few causes that actually do get our blood boiling. Say “cable TV” and we’ll salivate long enough to elect you UC president; but don’t expect us to give a crap next week. We won’t. But this time at least, after the results are certified, we’ll be left with the Class of 1967, their long-incipient laugh-lines and bloodshot eyes staring us rather callously...
...Putin's success, similarly, is based on reversing the national sense of gloom and doom that accompanied the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. While lionized in the West for his anti-communist stance, Yeltsin is remembered at home for ushering in an era of economic and social catastrophe, rampant kleptocracy and a series of geopolitical humiliations at the hands of the West. Rising oil prices have allowed Putin to oversee a dramatic turnabout in Russia's economic position, fueling an increasingly assertive, and domestically popular, economic and political nationalism. Whether challenging the U.S. and its allies on Kosovo, opting...
...Huckabee knows that the attacks are only helping his candidacy, helping him stand out with undecided voters looking for a sunny alternative to all the doom and gloom coming from Romney and Rudy Giuliani. In fact, the former Arkansas governor is clearly relishing the fray, as he did in the YouTube debate. "You notice I didn't jump in the middle of it, I was more than willing to stand back and enjoy the show," said Huckabee, who then added a NASCAR analogy. "When you've got several cars on the track and to get to bumping each other, there...
...than juggle accounts to keep the war machine humming while planning to lay off some 200,000 civilians and contractors if Congress fails to pass a bill acceptable to the White House. But the Administration is encouraging the sense of an impending train wreck, shouting early and often that doom is just ahead. "There is a misperception that this department can continue funding our troops in the field for an indefinite period of time through accounting maneuvers," Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned November 15. "This is a serious misconception...
...will be out of a job after Thanksgiving due to strike-related cutbacks.“This kind of thing is happening all over the place. Assistants are getting fired everywhere,” says Oliver. “There’s this pervading sense of doom around town.” Micah N. Fitzerman-Blue ’05, another aspiring writer in L.A., echoed Oliver’s sentiments. Fitzerman-Blue recognizes that his youth in the business leaves him time to carve out a place in the industry. But, he adds, “there?...