Word: scenario
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Rather than alternating between sexual allusions and sexual illusions in the style of the generic teen flick. Reiner uses the cross country trip scenario as a chance to wink, gently but snidely, at the void that is Middle American culture In smaller but still delightful doses. Reiner offers the same subtle satire that made This is Spinal Tap! the best comedy of last year...
Cambridge's solution is no "average" scenario, no paradigm panacea to be adopted by other communities, and we should be wary of spotlighting the extreme population density argument. However, the fact that the DOD regulations, the only federal restrictions regarding "supertoxic" chemicals, could allow ADL to begin such research in a city with so many people per square mile clearly earmarks these inadequate regulations for national-level overhaul...
...chief information source for the city councils concerns, the Scientific Advisory Committee, compiled among other things "worst case sensations" for nerve gas accidents. Perhaps this kind of local committee can be called upon by other communities facing similar problems. Cambridge is, however, automatically a kind of worse case scenario, due its population density...
...Irish, Poles, Jews and alas even WASPS). The zero-sum or foreclosure power game around Harvard's resources that flows from this infantile parochial approach to Alumni status at Harvard cannot, I assure the ethnocentric novices who run Harvard Black Student Association, be won by Blacks. Indeed, this frightening scenario would be detrimental to all of us--to all Americans--and especially detrimental to the cosmopolitan imperative that Harvard has played such a painstaking role in advancing in 20th century America. Martin L. Kilson Professor of Government
...That is what happened to Author Graham Greene, 80, who learned in 1983 that something of his called The Tenth Man had been unearthed from the archives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He remembered working under contract to MGM back in 1944 and thought he might have written a brief scenario of a story that could, conceivably, have borne that title. But when the discovered typescript was sent to him, as Greene notes in an introduction, he was astonished: "It proved to be not two pages of outline but a complete short novel of about 30,000 words. What surprised...