Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increase Kuwait's supply of American-made Hawk missiles and augment its skimpy radar facilities. For the past two weeks, a 20-man team from the Pentagon has been in Kuwait discussing the country's security needs. "We assume Kuwait is No. 1 on the escalation scenario," says a senior U.S. diplomat. In other words, Kuwait would be the first victim...
Approaching the screen adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's complex novel, one anticipated a worst-case scenario in every sense of the word. The last gloomily adventurous 24 hours of the onetime British consul in Cuernavaca, which begin on the Mexican Day of the Dead (and on the eve of World War II as well), are an invitation to the portentous. But for once the simplifying narrative imperatives of the screen and the imperatives of the talent assembled for the effort) have served a difficult book well. In recounting what is either an ascent to Calvary or a descent into...
...Company is a $6 million-a-year operation employing a staff of 90, keeping 88 percent of Harvard's $2.5 billion endowment. Lately HMC has moved into risky areas where universities never dared trod--venture capital, stock options and futures, complex bond arbitrage operations--and has even pioneered a scenario (called "stock lending") where it lends short-term securities like bonds to private investors. Harvard takes the cash those investors pay and deposits it at market rates of return--a double-edged way of boosting endowment by having money in the bank and bonds to cash in later. In addition...
Professors said the ad--promoting the book "Spirals," authored by William Patrick, editor of science publications at Harvard University Press--did not make it clear that the frightening scenario was only a scene from a novel, not a documentary...
...many want to continue opening this massive drain. In June of last year, the Department of Energy released a report calling for an enormous power plant building program, geared to meet hugely inflated estimates of electrical energy demand. The DOE scenario would channel one tenth or more of all private domestic investment in the next two decades into power plant construction...