Word: doomsday
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...spells doomsday for UMass," she said. "This is reality. I know I'm going to have a big problem if the tuition goes up by $1000. A lot of people I know won't come back...
...more than 15,000 sites targeted in the Soviet Union are outlined in what Arkansas Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers last week called the "most closely guarded secret in America" -- the Single Integrated Operational Plan. The so- called SIOP, or "doomsday book," designates facilities in the Soviet Union that are to be incinerated and the kinds of U.S. missiles and planes that will carry out each attack. It divides Soviet targets into four categories: nuclear forces; other military targets; 105,000 ranking members of the Soviet military, political and managerial elite; and war-supporting industries such as factories and depots...
...such levels can be reached only by rethinking SIOP. "The SIOP drives everything -- force levels, budgets and arms control," says Paul Warnke, former director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "Unless the SIOP changes, nothing else changes." Including the doomsday threat...
...pleasures Romuald and Juliette offers is this seductively devious plot: a doomsday version of everybody's office politics. Serreau also nicely blends corporate intrigue with romantic camaraderie. By film's end any skeptic will believe that natural combatants -- rich and poor, white and black, man and woman -- can be made gracious allies. It takes just a little goodwill and a very good film...
...devil should you be quoting Felix Rohatyn, who has an absolutely failed record of doomsday predictions?" asks Milton Friedman, Nobel- prizewinning economist at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. "The U.S. economy is fundamentally very healthy, and there's no reason why the '90s shouldn't be just as good as the '80s, or better. There's no reason why we shouldn't have a decade of rapid growth and relatively low inflation...