Word: scenario
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Imagine Israeli intelligence, the best and most experienced in the Middle East, planning the perfect scenario for Obeid's abduction. Even in its simplest form, their escapade seems far-fetched...
...planned scenario were successful, Israel would have its soldiers back. If it were not successful, then the world would look in horror and dismay at the reaction of Arab terrorists. In a time when even the United States is demanding some sort of electoral concession to Palestinians, Israel could point to such Arab violence and say, "look, they cannot be trusted...
Some economists believe the slack period will be short-lived and will be followed by renewed growth, a scenario that has them searching for metaphors. David Hale, chief economist of Chicago's Kemper Financial Services, characterizes the slowdown as an "output pause." Geoffrey Moore, an economics professor at Columbia University, talks of a "stutter step." Economist Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor, says that by late 1990 the slowdown may be followed by a period of "economic refreshment...
Deborah Johnson, a senior economist for Prudential-Bache Securities, foresees the possibility of what she dubs a "couch-potato recession." Her scenario: well-off baby boomers, who have already purchased their compact-disc players and microwave ovens and typically have children to provide for, will spend more time at home and do less shopping. According to Prudential-Bache's Yuppie Consumption Index, these consumers cut their spending 2.4% in the period from December through...
...might be able to devise ways to spoof or bypass one device after another. Eventually, they might make it all the way to the equipment inside the State Department and CIA communications vaults without being detected. But, says an official directly involved in this analysis, "I never saw a scenario that was credible." Declares another source: "If there had been a penetration, it would have been detected...