Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday over who would serve first, as well as how to assign the 24 posts in the new Cabinet. One of last week's proposals called for the positions to be divided evenly between the two camps, but exactly how remains in dispute. According to Peres' scenario, he would initially head the government, with a deputy prime ministership and the Foreign and Finance ministries going to rival Likud forces; the Defense Ministry would be given to Labor. Shamir, on the other hand, promised that if he is allowed to be Prime Minister first, Labor would have the courtesy...
...just a thin coating, that the President beneath is oblivious and misguided. "Mondale and Ferraro are putting up warning signs," notes a White House strategist. "They are saying the next four years will be dangerous if Reagan is reelected. We will have to respond to that." The wishful Democratic scenario has the electorate looking toward a problematic future and deciding that one term of the Reagan regimen has been O.K., but that one term was enough...
...Justice Brennan articulated the newly granted immunity of judges when he said. "If their decision to issue a warrant was correct, the evidence will be admitted; if their decision was incorrect but the police relied in good faith on the warrant, the evidence will also be admitted." Such a scenario illustrates the pointlessness of a warrant process without a strict application of the exclusionary rule--it becomes defunct, a meaningless bureaucratic procedure, neither facilitating detailed police work or protecting individuals rights...
...shoulder at each event. Still, officials in the City of Angels feel confident they have done everything possible to prevent disruptions. "These Games are a celebration, not an international security event," says Security Director Best. "But you can be sure we are planning for a worst possible case scenario...
However accurate a scenario like this may be, the tone merely detracts from an otherwise sensible and perceptive view of the problems of contraceptives. An author and thinker like Greer does not need to grab our attention with passages like this one. At times, one wishes she were more cold and clinical, because the facts and analyses can generally stand on their...