Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social problem of these dimensions cries out for close, active attention. We can no longer avert our eyes, admitting that there is a problem but refusing to confront it; neither can we become so hardened to the problem that compassion and empathy no longer exist. If the latter scenario ever becomes commonplace, we will have lost the last remnants of our humanity...
...President and told Kennedy that he did not plan to leave the White House and his family, attack or not. Kennedy reportedly looked up with that wry smile on his face and said, "That's O.K. Neither do I. I'm staying right here." So much for the doomsday scenario...
Private economists, skeptical about that rosy scenario, have been predicting slower growth this year and warned that the latest report from the Labor Department could lead the Fed to boost interest rates to restrain the economy and keep inflation in check...
...Some of the more extreme people are totally unrealistic. They claim that they had some wonderful scenario in their mind that inflation was going to come down gradually, not too much and not too little, and everything was going to come out just great eight years later. Things don't work in that orderly a fashion. They ought to be happy that, from their standpoint politically, everything came out beautifully. They took their lumps in the first couple of years ((with a recession)) and by the 1984 election everything was going fine. Now they're rednecked about being blamed...
...science fiction story, Bell asked whether white Americans living in a ruined world would choose to restore their economy and natural resources in return for enslaving their Black neighbors to extraterrestials. In Bell's scenario, Black Americans allowed a white-controlled constitutional convention to disenfranchise them, overriding their protests in the name of due process and majority rule...