Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high on his wish list, Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Sam Nunn of Georgia have taken themselves out of the running. While Democrats seem to be content to take Nunn at his word, visions of a Bradley draft now excite Democrats almost as much as a Mario scenario did several months ago, though some think two Northeasterners on the ticket could be a fatal liability. Jesse Jackson is nominally on the list, largely because he has demanded to be there and has enough clout that he must be. Jackson is the only would-be to get star treatment...
...hobbyists, danger is part of the scenario. "You step back into Jack London's time," says Hopkins, who first hopped a freight during his student acting days to attend his grandfather's 90th birthday. "Each trip has edginess, adventure and beauty." Hopkins and his companions are headed for Yuma, Ariz., a wintertime hobo haven along the Colorado River. Since the bull had promised 30 days in jail and a $2,000 fine if further annoyed, everyone hid, returning well after midnight to catch the train. They succeeded, but with difficulty. Comfortable boxcars are giving way to sealed containerized loads...
...scenario was all too familiar. As U.S. Navy Captain William E. Nordeen, 51, a military attache at the American embassy in Athens, was setting out for work in his bulletproof Ford Granada last week, the morning calm was shattered by an explosion. A bomb planted in a Toyota sedan parked near Nordeen's home had been detonated by remote control as he drove by. The blast hurled Nordeen's car across the street; the captain's decapitated body was found more than 100 ft. away in the yard of an abandoned house...
...This scenario illustrates a striking new development: Hungary has become the first nation in the Warsaw Pact to offer sanctuary to citizens of a Communist ally. Since January more than 4,500 Rumanians have received permission to settle in Hungary, and officials predict that the number will swell to at least 12,000 by year's end. Virtually all the newcomers belong to the large ethnic Hungarian minority (more than 1.7 million) that lives in the western Rumanian region of Transylvania. The immigrants complain that ethnic Hungarians are the victims of official discrimination. Hungarian authorities agree: in April, Budapest protested...
Washington strategists have begun to envision that scenario when talk turns -- as it increasingly does nowadays -- to Japan's growing influence. The very prospect of such pressure, however remote, is part of a subtle change in the way Americans view the Japanese. No longer is Japan seen simply as a tireless competitor and an endless source of high-quality goods. Japan's successes have been so spectacular that they seem ready to burst beyond economic bounds...