Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, such a scenario would derail if the Baltic republics decided instead to uncouple totally from the Soviet train. Emotions are running particularly high this month because of the 50th anniversary of the Molotov- Ribbentrop pact, the treaty signed by the Foreign Ministers of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that opened the way for Moscow's occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940. In downtown Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, a group of young hunger strikers has set up a makeshift shelter decorated with placards calling for liquidation of the Nazi-Soviet pact. HOW LONG WILL...
...hostage scenario has become numbingly familiar. The sadistic videotapes of frightened captives, followed by threats of execution. The White House dispatching naval fleets or listening for some faint reply down a clogged diplomatic channel to the Middle East. Last week it was George Bush's turn to try urgent appeals and gunboat maneuvers while an angry public fulminated at American impotence. Just six months in office, Bush had become the third U.S. President in a row caught in the same wretched predicament. The latest hostage crisis, however, yielded a gruesome new image of horror: a man, bound and gagged, dangling...
Ahmad's other projects for the summer included making a collage based on the film Do the Right Thing, designing a beach house, analyzing a building, making rough sketches and redesigning a bookstore which, in the program's scenario, had burned down...
Urban design projects include analysis of city plans and development of urban areas in foreign countries. For one project, students were presented with an elaborate scenario in Nepal and asked to build housing for Tibetan refugees, taking into consideration the various needs of the population, the different materials available for building and the cultural attitudes in Nepal...
...White House said yesterday that President Bush has made no decision on whether to use military retaliation if terrorists kill a second American hostage in Lebanon, but a spokesperson said the "foundation planning" has been done for every scenario...