Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early scenario was this: Sue Ellen decides to kill herself by dissolving sleeping pills in a glass of water. As she heads to the baby's room to say goodbye to her son, J.R. comes in drunk and gulps down the water. Sue Ellen sees this but does not stop him. She just goes in and rocks the baby. "It was interesting, but it wasn't as stylish as establishing five or six suspects," says Capice. "It didn't afford us an opportunity to bring four or five story story lines together. The shooting...
...scenario for this exercise has a small friendly nation, "Granna," under attack by forces from two of its neighbors, "Holguin" and "Kupa." Granna requests assistance. The President sends U.S. troops...
...option would be to continue the Polaris system but build it around modernized warheads and the replacement of aging submarines. That scenario would not be feasible unless Lockheed, Polaris' builder, could be persuaded to keep its production line open to provide the missiles for the new Royal Navy subs. A second alternative is a system of cruise missiles that could be mounted on ships, Hovercraft or trucks. Proponents of this plan estimate that Britain could buy and arm 150 cruise missiles for less than $2 billion. The hitch is that the relatively slow-moving missiles are vulnerable to enemy...
This gloomy scenario is not the prognosis of some latter-day Spengler but of Walter Levy, 69, perhaps the world's best-known independent oil consultant. Warns Levy in the current issue of Foreign Affairs: "A series of future emergencies centering around oil will set back world progress for many, many years...
...teaching school in a provincial Soviet town, living in obscurity, indeed in oblivion. His existence as a writer literally lay underground. In order to hide his work from the police, he buried two novels, One Day and The First Circle, two plays, a movie scenario and 12,000 lines of verse. All had been typed, single-spaced, on both sides of onionskin paper for easier concealment. These fragile manuscripts were what Solzhenitsyn called his "divisions" and "army corps" that would soon lay siege to the Kremlin...