Word: doomsdays
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...Korea, Japan and other Asian economies have plunged deeper into crisis in recent months, fears have spread of the doomsday scenario: Would the Asians begin to sell tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars in U.S. government securities to pay off their mounting debts? A tidal wave of selling would knock down the price of Treasuries, driving up interest rates and edging the American economy toward recession. In the ensuing panic, stock prices could be hammered, prompting a market crash...
...course, people only pay attention to Nostradamus's doomsday prophesies because of his alleged success in predicting other major events. But actually reading these famous prophesies would make a skeptic out of even the most enthusiastic investigator. Take, for example, the quatrain that Hogue and company take to be Nostradamus's prophesy of the Kennedy assassination...
...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...