Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contras, which Congress is almost certain to refuse, and by holding out for pure democracy in Nicaragua, Reagan will isolate the U.S. from peace negotiations that are likely to go forward -- with or without Washington. That in turn could increase the prospect of the worst-case scenario coming true...
...needs to be ready for the worst-case scenario, in which all the safety nets might be tested at once. That would put daunting pressure on the Government if its deficits remain high, because declining tax receipts and rising welfare payments would push the budget gap out of sight. Each additional percentage point of unemployment in the U.S. would balloon the deficit by an estimated $40 billion a year, a spectacle that might erode public confidence even further...
...strategic region from President Corazon Aquino's government, which was shaken and nearly toppled on Aug. 28 by a violent military mutiny. In the past four weeks alone, the Communist rebels have dynamited four bridges and torn up railway tracks along the Manila-Naga line. "It looks like a scenario for cutting off the north-south transportation of the country," said a Western military analyst. Some politicians warned that the N.P.A. might soon isolate Bicol from Manila and form a provisional government...
Lots, as it turns out. Take, for example, Fatal Attraction. It is your standard slasher scenario. Pheromones sing sly duets in a seemingly innocuous setting. The sex object is cute and easily seducible, but interested only in an encounter that is brief and zipless. Whereupon the rejected partner falls to obsessive brooding and proceeds down a darkening path from harassment to stalking with a deadly weapon. Uh-huh. At best it sounds like a cult classic in the making...
...CANDIDATES, of course, are packaged by themselves and their handlers. The same was true in George Washington's day. But this is especially true for Biden. Before the 1984 campaign, Democratic campaign guru Pat Caddell wrote out a scenario for how "Candidate Smith" could win the Democratic nomination and hopefully go on to victory in November. Candidate Smith was supposed to be Senator Biden...