Word: doomsdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doomsday view is only that, and some things have gone cable's way. The billions the industry has been spending to upgrade wiring will put expanded, premium-priced service in most markets in just a few months. At the basic level, cable has regained the pricing power it lost following mandated rate rollbacks in 1993-94. Even satellite competition appears less threatening now that News Corp. has abandoned its effort to jump-start a new national service...
...society bears some responsibility in the proliferation of these doomsday cults....People are making a lot of money off fear," he said...
...will be Eugene Gallagher, author of Why Waco and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Connecticut; Joseph Kelly, Thought Reform and Exit Consultant and former cult member; and Peter Klebnilov, who covered the Heaven's Gate mass suicide for Newsweek magazine, and author of a book on doomsday cults, "The Cult Next Door...
...carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life, is 66, as is Gene Hackman, who plays a sexually reckless U.S. President. E.G. Marshall, in the role of the President's adviser, is 86 and counting. The plot is a doomsday version of Bill Clinton's Paula Jones problem, but the theme is impending mortality--settling scores before time...
...Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...