Word: impendingness
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The government of Niger and the WFP warned of impending disaster late last year, but serious quantities of Western aid started flowing only over the past couple of weeks, in response to media reports on the country's starving children. Niger's President, Mamadou Tandja, has been unwilling to acknowledge...
After hearing about her sex life in gory detail, she finally tells me that her name is Jamie and that she is a model. Not just a regular model, a super-top model. Although her face is unfamiliar, she tells me she has done ad campaigns for various fashion houses...
Teenage fathers are usually bewildered by the news of the impending arrival. Their own fathers, statistics show, were often phantom parents, and the young men have very little idea of what a father is supposed to do. Notes Debra Klinman, project director of the Bank Street College study of teenage...
Reagan trusted Stockman, but Stockman, by his own admission, again and again failed to return that trust. The mystery in this account is why Stockman did not lay his fears of impending financial disaster squarely on the President's desk. Or why, if others thwarted his honest intentions, he did...
The sunny economic forecast is clouded, however, by a slowdown in international trade, which grew by only 3% last year, after a robust 9% expansion in 1984. Efforts to boost trade this year could be hurt by growing protectionism. In Congress last week, President Reagan barely defeated a challenge in...