Word: doomsdayers
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...short-lived radiation make it particularly effective against advancing tanks and armies." The cigar-chomping military brass must be dancing a jig of delight, detecting more support for their new toy. Meanwhile, most folks are sorely disappointed: at least another year before the Pentagon alchemists conjure up the Doomsday Machine. Now let's see...how many grams of uranium does it take to wipe out 50,000 human beings...
...next day or even the next hour-followed by a speedup in global inflation and, finally, international recession. Relations between Washington and its two most important economic allies, West Germany and Japan, both of which are crucially dependent on exports for economic growth, have already deteriorated alarmingly. But doomsday is not inevitable. For more than three decades the world has looked to Washington for economic leadership, and now it is begging for it-almost desperately. There is no time to lose...
...fairly clear that we're already I to some extent in the doomsday area." So said Phillip Hughes, an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy and head of the federal-state task force dealing with the nation's spreading coal shortage. Hughes was exaggerating, but there was no doubt that the coal strike, now in its third month, had become a major threat to the U.S. economy...
...final outcome was all Cowboys, as the Doomsday II defense outdid the Bronco I offense, and Dallas brought home their second world championship, overcoming a contest of miscues for a 27-10 victory...
...seemingly would not find a market if The Crash of '79 actually occurs. Erdman happily admits that it probably will not; he wrote the book, he says, primarily for enjoyment and secondarily "to alert people to what could happen." The hell of it is, nobody can say his doomsday scenario is flat-out impossible...