Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, let us look at the problem A not too uncommon scenario follows...
Despite the apparent folly of this quandary, such a scenario is currently being played out in the otherwise quiescent law-abiding game of tennis. The imminent withdrawal of Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl--two of the game's reigning troika--from Wimbledon has confounded the complacent tennis establishment, Lendl and Borg's threatened decisions not to play in the game's most prestigious tournament highlight the damage single-minded prima donnas inflict on the sport's reputation. Formerly distinguished by its courtly respect for propriety and unwaivering adherence to time-cherishes customs, tennis now suffers from an image crisis...
...term define it, quite imprecisely, as a prolonged period, perhaps two or three years, during which output and incomes shrink and business bankruptcies and unemployment rise to heights not seen since before World War II. Says Alan Greenspan, who was chief economic adviser to President Gerald Ford: "This scenario still has a low probability, but it should no longer be put into the bizarre or kooky category...
...this death and destruction is logically projected in a spirit of gamesmanship. Yet How to Make War is far more than "Dungeons and Dragons" for grownups. One Dunnigan scenario of how World War III could come about touches on the irrational, which is history as it endlessly reveals itself: "A vicious circle develops as each side suspects the other of superior technical performance. Lacking any means to validate this performance, the claims become even more outrageous and expensive ... In Russia, where the spirit and practice of the Potemkin village (a false front, as in motion picture sets) still lives...
...week, will be shorn of the technical glitches, gaping pauses and personal faux pas that lent the show a kind of desperate piquancy. Edited down for a three-hour ABC time slot, Night of 100 Stars will be sent out over the air waves on March 8 with a scenario jerry-built by 100 Stars Writer-Producer Hildy Parks, who with Husband Alexander Cohen conspires yearly to mount TV's Tony Awards show. Viewers delirious to watch Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy and 34 others don white tie, topper and tails and kick a leg with the Rockettes will have...