Word: doomsdays
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While there is some truth in the warnings--the air transportation sector does have serious problems that it must address--the doomsday predictions are far too gloomy. In fact, almost 22 years since the U.S. airline industry was deregulated, it is by far the best time to be a frequent flyer--particularly if you are young...
...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...
...course, it is only a doomsday scenario, one that may seem "X-treme" in its own right. But given the exposure that the league will get via its contract with NBC, the local support that the franchises in smaller markets like Orlando and Birmingham will receive and astounding popularity of wrestling and McMahon himself, it is unlikely that the XFL can do anything but succeed...
...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...