Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this sounds confusing, don't worry. Richard Bulliet's The Gulf Scenario reads like a TV movie, complete with fade-ins, exotic locales, love interests-everything but the words "Place Commercial Here" between chapters. In other words, Bulliet makes no grand assumptions about his readers' intelligence. There's even a map--a simplified one at that--of the Middle East on the flyleaf, for those readers who just can't keep all those Arabian nations straight (though the Persian Gulf itself is confusingly labeled Bahrain...
...course, would like nothing better than to have the U.S. saddled with the Western Hemisphere equivalent of the U.S.S.R.'s own hostile neighbor, China. Refugees by the hundreds of thousands would pour over U.S. borders, competing with Americans for jobs and straining social services. Even if that scenario should not come to pass, the stakes are high. With its tough talk and lofty goals, the Administration has made Central America a test of U.S. prestige, credibility and power...
...twist to the usual scenario of politicians children being docked for speeding. Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh came under fire last month for using state troopers to whisk his sons--one of whom is a K-School student--from Harrisburg to Cambridge. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Thornburgh used state funds to pay for several trips this year. According to the Inquirer, the trips, including hotel rooms for the cops, were paid out of state coffers...
...help the man whom one Soviet commentator called "the worst U.S. President since Truman." The prospects for significant progress in the superpowers' relations for the remainder of this year have rarely appeared dimmer. Said one top Reagan aide of the chances for a thaw: "I think under any scenario we're talking about next year...
...scenario is almost invariably the same. A young, go-getting executive invites an important client to a business lunch, but everything goes wrong. The maître d' seats them at a table next to the kitchen. Then the executive orders what he thinks is healthful yet trendy fare: Lillet before the meal, followed by fruit salad, chicken à la king, and date-nut bread for dessert. But the executive's entrée costs him the client's respect, and worse, the deal. Reason: his food and drink give the wrong impression...