Word: scenario
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...right so maybe it's a bit early in the year to be calling a freshman experienced but five games into the Harvard baseball season. Nahigian and Sorbara have already played out the above scenario twice...
Even if Jebsen's scenario is correct, and U.S. military withdrawal does lead to an El Salvador controlled by a Soviet-backed regime, the question is how bad would that be? Jebsen suggests that El Salvador is different from Vietnam because it is closer to home. But Cuba is only 90 miles from the American shore, and although it has been a Communist state for twenty-five years. American children still aren't taught in Russian. Jebsen says El Salvador is of strategic importance, but this simply isn't the case. El Salvador itself is of no military importance...
...starting gate should have been a tip-off that this would be no live furlong romp. Now that the shine of the Mondale machine has been dulled by Florida sun and New England must and snow, new possibilities seem to be popping up every day. In the most interesting scenario, neither Hart not Mondale is able to nail down enough delegates, and the convention is forced to nominate a compromise candidate. Although if sounds far-fetched, it may become a necessary alternative...
Assuming the Illinois primary is not a rout either way, Elliot Cutler, a top Mondale adviser, offers a plausible scenario for the remainder of the campaign: "A week from now, you [reporters] all will be saying, 'It's coming down to New York', after that you'll be saying, 'It's coming down to Pennsylvania.' Then I guarantee you everyone will be calling June 5 Super Tuesday II." New York chooses 172 delegates in a primary on April 3, and Pennsylvania selects 117 on April 24; on June 5, 333 delegates will...
...elements of a familiar scenario were back on center stage of U.S. foreign policy. Not long ago, the setting was Lebanon. This time it was the scarred landscape of El Salvador. As it has so often before, the Reagan Administration was rattling sabers as a means of drawing the line against Communist expansion in Central America. The Administration's aim, paradoxically enough, was to focus attention on a supposedly peaceable watershed: the March 25 presidential election in El Salvador, a long-awaited contest in which the outcome is uncertain and the stakes are considerable. With the balloting only...