Word: impendingness
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Like a biblical prophet, Christopher Lasch appears at the gates of our culture with dire pronouncements: "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times ... Defeat in Viet Nam, economic stagnation, and the impending exhaustion of natural resources have produced a mood of pessimism in higher circles, which spreads through...
The check is in the mail The Gore plan only delays the impending bankruptcy of the program; it doesn't solve it. Even if Gore gets the country through the retirement of the baby boomers, the cost of Social Security will continue to rise (because people are living longer), forcing...
Despite their dubious and sometimes deadly activities, the cults have remained pretty much outside the law. Evidence emerged last week that the U.S. State Department had been given ample warning of the impending catastrophe at Jonestown but had not acted decisively. Deborah Layton Blakey, sister of Larry Layton, the commune...
China watchers wondered whether Teng had enough power to take on Hua himself. Indeed, at week's end sidewalk orators began to harangue street crowds, and new posters blossomed, finding fault with Chairman Hua personally. Even more startling, both Taiwan and the U.S., once derided for their capitalist faults...
Quaint as that query may sound to an American, the impending shutdown of the venerable Times and Sunday Times of London is no footling affair to an Englishman. The gloom among Britain's Establishment could be as thick as suet pudding if the Times (circ. 293,000)-the nation...