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...there any hint about Brezhnev's eventual successor. The cult of personality that surrounds the ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the winter issue of the Public Interest, a neoconservative quarterly, Simon charges that the presidential panel and staff who wrote the report consisted almost entirely of well known Cassandras of the environmental movement. In making their predictions Simon argues, these prophets of doom relied on shoddy research and dubious analytical tools...
...uncertainty about where the U.S. should be heading, the fundamental question remains: If a first-class leader managed to reach the White House, and if he had a clear and persuasive view of the course he wanted to set, could he provide an effective Government? Or would "the system" doom him, as it doomed more than one of his predecessors, to a single term ending in bitterness and frustration...
Boom in the gloom-and-doom business of investment seminars They are the rock concerts of the 1980s...
...pampas; as Senora Perón, she stalked the corridas of power, sniffing for the blood of old enemies. Young Eva told a colleague she wanted to play the great ladies of history: Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Lucrezia Borgia. Her wish was her destiny and her doom. Fate and a will of steel cast her as the avatar of all these women, and when she died her grieving lover was the nation...