Word: doomsdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Department has issued a warning to American travelers that terrorists may be planning attacks on locations around the world where New Year's revelers are expected to gather. While overseas bad guys like Bin Laden are the chief suspects, fears have also been raised about doomsday cults and crackpot racists in the U.S. Two middle-aged men were arrested in Sacramento, Calif., this month on charges of plotting to blow up two massive propane tanks. And federal agents are investigating the theft of nearly 1,000 lbs. of dynamite and ammonium nitrate from an Arizona rock quarry last week...
...much ballyhooed combination of Harvard and Radcliffe, now complete, has invited almost as many doomsday predictions as the coming turn of the millennium. While the optimists claim that Radcliffe's conversion into an institute for advanced study will allow the former college to expand its presence within the University community, the naysayers believe that Radcliffe--and its role as a strong advocate for women on campus--will fade quietly into the woodwork...
Such confidence makes it easy for the pair of Y2K coordinators to shed any doomsday fears of the coming New Year...
...rest of us call criminals). So we're looking at a future of electronic fire and brimstone? Not likely, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. "Whenever there's a high-tech law-enforcement convention somewhere, we hear cybercops sounding the alarm: Cybercrime is reaching a critical state and doomsday is upon us." It's tough to get worked into a frenzy, adds Quittner, when there's no evidence that any of these claims is true. "I haven't heard of a single major cybercrime, hack or hijacking - ever." Of course, the cybercops have to justify their cyber-beat...
...representative of the U.S. meat and poultry industry, I was both dismayed and insulted by Ayres' doomsday article. Modern agriculture and meat production are among the miraculous accomplishments of the 20th century. Today our livestock and poultry convert feed into nutrient-dense protein with phenomenal and increasing efficiency. Cattle graze on rugged, mountainous lands that can be used for little else. The agriculture and meat industries should be commended for embracing--not avoiding--the science and technology that have enabled Americans to have the most nutritious and wholesome food supply found anywhere. J. PATRICK BOYLE, PRESIDENT AND CEO American Meat...