Word: doomsday
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These moderates worked together to avert a doomsday scenario and save the filibuster because they recognized that the filibuster is needed to preserve the deliberative nature of the Senate; the filibuster rewards working across party lines, encourages politicians to reach out and try to convince the other side, and prevents a slim majority from running roughshod over the minority party...
...tiny country, largely dependent on tourism, struggles to relaunch its tourism industry after the devastating tsunami of Dec. 26. The verifiable scientific knowledge on the effects of a rise in sea level is scanty. To the contrary, there is a school of thought that believes the sea-level rise doomsday scenario is a storm in a teacup. Sim I. Mohamed Secretary General Maldives Association of Tourism Industry Mal?, the Maldives...
...doomsday scenario, outlined most alarmingly in the recent book The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kuntsler, goes like this: gasoline will soon get so expensive that most Americans simply won't be able to afford it. Suburbs, strip malls, interstate highways, the infrastructure of the modern U.S. economy just won't work anymore without cheap oil, and the U.S. will have to reinvent itself or risk falling into decay. That dire prophecy, though, is really all about timing. Georgia Tech's Shelton, an engineering professor and oil-futures expert, says the extent of the economic damage depends on how fast...
...China and Japan, participants in the six-party talks, share a common need to defuse the crisis. A North Korea armed with doomsday weapons poses an indirect threat to China, because regional powers (Japan among them) would then be encouraged to equip themselves with their own nuclear deterrents. In addition, the talks offer China a chance to play a major role in solving a sensitive and intractable diplomatic issue, while at the same time improving its often rocky relations with the U.S. Japan, too, stands to gain from disarming Kim. North Korea fired a long-range missile over Japan...
...Gogol's antibureaucratic satire The Inspector General. The cheeriest West End offering is a charming revival of Guys and Dolls starring the pop singer Lulu. But the most exciting theatrical experience in London is a trio of full-length plays originated at the Cottesloe, The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday, that retell the Bible, accenting the life and death of Christ. The language comes from the alliterative, rhyming poetry of medieval English miracle, or mystery, plays, chiefly the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles, but the visual imagery is imaginatively modern: God sits in judgment on a whirling metal cage...