Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advertising agency, when Chairman Maurice Saatchi unloaded his uncomfortable secret. The firm's profits, he said, will slump during 1989 for the first time since the agency was founded 19 years ago. Said he: "It's going to be a tough year." Stunned by the abrupt reversal at the juggernaut company, analysts slashed their predictions of its 1989 profits from $280 million to about $165 million. The company's stock plunged, falling more than 15% on the day of the announcement...
Ultimately, slowing the population juggernaut will depend on the ability of family-planning experts to create well-tailored programs for different societies and even for different segments of societies. But first, governments will have to raise public awareness and rally support for population control with a cohesive message about the dangers of rampant growth. India, one of the first countries to adopt a family-planning program, some 30 years ago, failed to forge a national will for the task, and the population is now growing at 2% a year...
...press flocked to the site, the oil companies, biologists and Eskimos discovered they had unleashed a juggernaut they could not control. The Eskimos quickly abandoned their seasonal hunt for endangered bowhead whales in the belief that it would not look good on network news. The oil companies found themselves in a no-win situation. Lampooned by an Anchorage Daily News cartoon that showed oil-company workers competing in a race for a "Public Relations Cup," the rescuers also faced the possibility of inadvertently killing the whales with kindness. Would the shock of heavy equipment hammering the ice pack panic...
...victims of crime and their families, in some cases the parents or spouses of murder victims. With the passion of bitter experience, they denounce Bird at public gatherings, and will swell the ranks of doorbell ringers that Roberts plans to field by the thousands next month. "There's a juggernaut coming down the street," he promises...
...last remaining opponent, Pat Robertson. Although details must be worked out, Robertson will receive prime TV time at the convention in return for suspending his moribund campaign. Bush forces are planning several regional unity meetings in June to stroke supporters of the other Republican candidates flattened by the Bush juggernaut...