Word: scenario
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When President Reagan last week urged U.S. scientists to develop new high-tech defensive weaponry, this scenario was the sort of thing that he had in mind. It is called directed-energy weaponry and has two main forms: high-energy lasers (HEL) and charged-particle beams (CPB). In the current fiscal year, the Pentagon is spending $1 billion to test the feasibility of these weapons schemes. By all indications, the Soviets are spending even more, perhaps three to five times as much...
...Cloud-Cuckoo-Land on an up note, predicting that a horde of talented new graduates from film schools will gallop West and rescue the studios from them selves. Whether they will be allowed to write anything but sequels to Porky 's remains an open question. An altogether different scenario suggests itself: DISSOLVE TO AMBITIOUS YOUNG WRITER seated before TV console, his face bathed in flickering greenish light. Suddenly he smacks his forehead with the heel of his hand. AYR (excitedly): Why did I waste my childhood on words? Space Invaders, hah! Pac-Man, hah! At last I have programmed...
...have shunted political concerns too far aside to be practicable. with drawing all aid from the Salvadoran government--i.e. acting on the human rights ultimatum--would likely lead to the collapse of the present government. Then either the extreme Left would take over or outright anarchy would ensure: neither scenario is in the interests of the Salvadorans, or the United States...
...last year, and another $2.5 billion or so is in annual budgets through 1986. A large chunk is in hand in lacocca's $900 million cash kitty. And he is counting on generating the rest from profits and cash flow over the next four years. It is not a scenario that can withstand unpleasant surprises. Says Alan Webber, a former transportation-department aide who is now a senior research associate at Harvard: "One false step and they are off the tightrope...
According to Wiener, parallels to the Duke scenario include a 10-day decision period for the university and administration heavy-handedness. "The administration is treating the library in the same fashion," he said. The only difference the library has been sealed down from 150,000 to 100,000 square feet. The Chronicle, Duke University