Word: doomsday
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...result could be an end to professional sport as we know it. It would be the final triumph of gimmickry over actual competition and the ultimate bastardization of sports. I don't consider myself a purist in the strictest sense, but this doomsday scenario upsets...
...while people around the world chuckled, shook their heads and made doomsday predictions about the future of science in Kansas, they were somewhat misinformed. There was plenty of room for outcry, for heated debate and discussion, but not for the hysterics that went on throughout the globe...
Fundamentals too could turn against the dollar. The doomsday fear is that the Fed, in its zeal to head off inflation, will hit the monetary brakes too hard, causing a severe slowdown in the U.S. economy. That frightens away some foreign investment, causing the dollar to drop sharply. Then inflation rises despite the slowdown, prompting the Fed to crack down harder still, and so on around a truly vicious circle...
...weapons are easy to make, hard to track and hard to defend against. This means that even if the U.S. does spend tens of billions of dollars on a system to shoot down North Korean missiles, we will still have to deal with the equally pressing problem of stopping doomsday cults or future Unabombers armed with deadly viruses...
...DOOMSDAY PREDICTION] The Heaven's Gate cult claims the earth will be destroyed, and they must flee on a spacecraft trailing Comet Hale-Bopp...