Word: impendingness
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TEN YEARS ago, when Ethiopia's last famine helped to replace Haile Selassie's regime with a Marxist government, experts said that future starvation waves would be predictable and therefore manageable. Although the experts were correct in the first assertion, they didn't realize that no one would listen to...
(2 of 12) screaming new groups. Where Reagan sought to soothe and cheer Americans, Mondale tried to puncture their complacency with warnings of impending doom and taxes.
As for tomorrow's impending in the Stadium, Martinson says "We are just going to play the best game we can. Win or lose, I won't leave any regrets. Everybody prepares differently. I like to stay loose and listen to music before a game."
Last week that apathy vanished. The catalyst was dramatic television footage, shot by a BBC team and aired in the U.S. by NBC, that showed grim scenes of emaciated children and rows of corpses laid out on the cracked Ethiopian plain. Within hours, contributions from individual American citizens began pouring...
Mondale twice expressed alarm that if a Star Wars defense were ever actually deployed, "for the first time we would delegate to computers the decision as to whether to start a war." Defense experts contend that a Star Wars defense would rely no more heavily on computers to give warning...