Word: nightmarish
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...coverage against oil spills. Then there are disruptions onshore, which New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne described as the "helter-skelter development" of pipelines, refineries and storage tanks. Interior's impact statement, critics charge, deals with such problems inadequately. Indeed. California Senator John Tunney called the Government proposals "a nightmarish blueprint for disaster...
...Nightmarish visions of last year's Cornell encounter at Watson (remember when the Big Red came from a 4-1 deficit to edge Harvard 5-4 in OT?) and the ever-haunting specter of the "letdown" the night after against hapless Colgate had most fans believing that the Crimson icemen would joint the mortal ranks of the once-beaten in the ECAC by Monday morning...
...treaty was signed on limitation of defensive missile systems (ABM'S), but an interim agreement on the deployment of offensive nuclear arms extends only to 1977. Unless some significant breakthrough can be made soon, the idyl of American-Soviet détente may be lost in the nightmarish shuffle of an accelerated arms race. Well aware that peripheral agreements on scientific collaboration and cultural exchange cannot compensate for failure to achieve this central goal, Kissinger went into the talks with a variety of specific suggestions for more lasting and stringent controls on the whole range of strategic arms...
...unexpected effect, so maddening for a people encouraged to believe that brave acts and sensible policies guarantee happy endings. As everyone is now aware, all those freestanding, suburban one-family houses (an American dream come true) were livable only if the owners had cars, and so helped bring on nightmarish traffic jams, the decay of the cities and the decline of public transport. Solberg also considers such a thing as the G.I. Bill a marvelous benefit to youth and society...
...launch, expand or modernize enterprises; public officials who schedule the building of roads, schools, parks; consumers who plan purchases of houses, cars, even college educations. Yet in recent months that comforting belief has been shaken by a skyrocketing rise in interest rates to peaks that would have seemed a nightmarish fantasy only two years ago. Some interest rates, in fact, are at levels unmatched since the Civil War. The most startling statistic: the "prime" rate that banks charge to their most credit-worthy business customers has jumped to a level of 11½% to 11 ¾%, the highest ever...