Word: looms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been lagging for more than two years and now are precisely what is needed for solid business growth. Said Alan Greenspan, a New York City economic consultant and unofficial adviser to President Reagan: "If the President and Congress agreed on a credible plan to cut the deficits that loom for the next ten years, the effect would be nothing short of spectacular. It would mean a major economic expansion, which would probably pro-feed at a highly noninflationary pace...
...past, but many experts believe it has become more pervasive. "We live in a world of uncertainties," says Harvard's Benson, "everything from the nuclear threat to job insecurity to the near assassination of the President to the lacing of medicines with poisons." Through television, these problems loom up under our very noses, and yet, says Psychologist Kenneth Dychtwald of Berkeley, Calif., the proximity only frustrates us: "We can't fight back with those people...
...simple-sounding schemes like the zero option and the idea of defending the U.S. with space-based missile killers. Earlier in the year, he commented to a friend that he "sometimes wished all this nuclear stuff would go away." It will not go away in any event, but will loom all the larger...
...Monica Dorten, perched on stools in one corner of a vast blue stage that projects out into the audience like a table, the two actors seem like lambs ready to be sacrificed. But they pull it off. Clad in overstaffed purple tunics, cousins to the Fruit of the Loom grapes, they whisper hilarious jibberish to each other at the approach of a hungry fox, then break out into a scornful jive patois when the fox can't leap far enough to pluck them from their vise. Close and Dotten fill up the stage with their voices, their pantomimes and their...
...genes and their far-reaching impact always loom large in Konner's analysis. He notes that males are inherently more aggressive than females and explains this as a result of certain set differences in the structure of the hypothalamus, an important part of the brain which controls hormone levels. Males simply have more testesterone and so are simply--genetically--more violent (on average) than females. But to Kronner, this knowledge is promising, since it tells us. "Serious disarmament may ultimately necessitate an increase in the proportion of women in government. We would all be safer if the world's weapons...