Word: impendingness
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The speaker was Republican Economist Alan Greenspan, but the sentiment was shared by each of his colleagues on the TIME Board of Economists, which gathered last week to examine the economic outlook for 1981. To a man, the board agreed that the weakened U.S. economy simply cannot endure many more...
Chapman's other side appears to have begun its ascendancy a year later, after a college romance fizzled. He dropped out of Covenant College, a small Presbyterian school in Tennessee, after one semester, worked as a security guard in Atlanta, then moved to Hawaii. Depressed, however, by the unhappy...
They based their prediction on what scientists call the gap theory: that a quake can be expected in any part of a seismically active region where one has not occurred in the past 50 years or so. Understandably, the forecast was so vague that it was ignored and no preparations...
At the turn of the century, some scientists proposed measuring the buildup of stresses along known fault lines to determine when the rock might be nearing the breaking point. More recently, they have begun to look for other signals of an impending quake, such as changes in the ability of...
If "Generals and Majors," with its hummable hook and over-blunt satire, is the stuff of a hit single, "Living Through Another Cuba" is the single best song the impending hostilities have yet inspired. A rising-and-falling arpeggio of treated guitar and human wailing leads into an over-heated...