Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats are sailing into uncharted waters in their inability to select a nominee. The following imaginary scenario illustrates the kind of high-stakes bartering that could occur in the frenzied weeks leading up to the convention...
...heroic scenario: the explosion of the doomed planet Krypton, the miraculous escape of the infant son of a Kryptonian scientist, the discovery of the baby's spaceship by an elderly couple near the Midwestern town of Smallville. And the gradual revelations of the child's superhuman strength, the foster parents' exhortation that he "must use it to assist humanity," the youth's adoption of a dual identity -- the mild-mannered, blue-suited newspaper reporter, Clark Kent, and the red-caped, blue-haired Superman, the man of steel. And Lois Lane, the toothsome fellow reporter who attached herself to the Superman...
Vermont defeats Harvard, St. Lawrence defeats Clarkson: In this scenario, the Saints will grab a bid while the Catamounts do the same. Harvard will probably enter the tournament just for having captured the ECAC regular-season title...
Vermont defeats Harvard, Clarkson defeats St. Lawrence: This is the worst scenario for the Crimson, but probably the best one for Vermont. The Catamounts should earn a bid because they will have defeated the Crimson three times in one season...
...implications of this situation are too fully revealed in the fate of Edward Byrne. The circumstances of his death fit too well into the scenario depicted by the new report on civil disorders. South Jamaica, Queens-inner city. Poverty, crack-dealing, violent crime, a young man dead. And society is torn a more...