Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illustrate his argument, Moynihan described a scenario in which the USSR could destroy all U.S. missiles using only half their own, thus leaving the United States powerless to retaliate, even with a second strike force...
Little Oskar's story makes a fine scenario and Tin Drum is marvelously entertaining, even engrossing at times. Yet a question persists: why make this film? Must every literary classic stumble shell-shocked onto the screen? Time and a host of bad adaptations have shown that literature and cinema are not compatible cousins, that by their very nature, good novels will not make good films, just as the exciting visual effects of film cannot be duplicated in print...
...endures its annual trial by tornado during the next two months, this scenario is likely to be repeated at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla. The lab operates two new research radars that could be the prototypes for a tornado early-warning system. A sophisticated offspring of the familiar Doppler radar used by police to nab highway speeders, these electronic marvels for the first time are letting scientists peer into the very heart of storm systems in which tornadoes are born. Forecasters figure that should allow them to predict, more than 20 minutes in advance, when and where...
...Republican side, Bakshian is more at home, and by November had already written off Howard Baker--low scores on organization, John Connally--issues of "trust"--and John Anderson. Writing off George Bush as a possibility but not a probability, Bakshian offers the following scenario...
Sources at Chicago yesterday offered an alternative scenario: they say that Harberger probably never intended to accept the offer at Harvard. Harberger felt his administrative reputation at Chicago was in decline, members of the department believe, and he thought a prestigious offer from Harvard might reverse the trend...