Word: oblivion
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Reagan's considerable good works are in jeopardy these days because he is so reluctant to deal. True, conciliation too soon and too eagerly invites contempt, as happened with Jimmy Carter. But if it comes too late it invites oblivion. That is what threatens Ronald Reagan...
...decades later, his time as an attraction expended, Frank Robinson has finished leading three black managers into futile circumstances and has taken his place of oblivion as an Oriole coach. Joe Morgan has declined a managing job in -- of all cities -- Houston. Looking at every major-league front office and seeing only Atlanta's Henry Aaron, Morgan figured out the chances of advancement and took his talents and flair to another industry...
...nodded in agreement, but added, "I guess this leadership thing just gets to me sometimes. The world is perched on the brink of oblivion, commodity prices are down and the Russian sitcom program still hasn't taken off after 20 years...
...great losers in all this are Lech Walesa and the other Solidarnosc leaders. They are out of jail, but--without strong support from the Church--they have fallen into oblivion. In 1983, Virginio Levi, Director of the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, was fired for writing an editorial saying what the Church would not admit: that Walesa and Solidarnosc had been sacrificed...
...DEADEST DUCK George Lucas' $40 million Howard the Duck as it sank into box-office oblivion, proving that even the empire can strike...