Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College is right--perhaps its aggressive prohibition on most campus drinking will restore legality to Harvard's alcohol policy with no ill effects. But if a student driven off-campus to drink is ever involved in an ugly incident--and it's all too easy to envision a scenario for one--College administrators could find themselves acing some tough questions...
Privately, however, University administrators acknowledge that they feared an increasing likelihood of strikes if the union became established. Strikes always prove costly to Harvard, and in times of economic austerity the menace is even more acute. Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which the entire Med area is deprived of its secretaries--the effect would be paralyzing. And in their most ingenuous moments, Harvard officials concede their distaste for District...
Cain argues the existence of this intrepid rebel skilfully, somehow fitting all Ophelia's lines into the mold. This Ophelia never loses Hamlet's love but inexplicably goes mad when he is sent to England. To make this scenario convincing, though, Cain must stiflesome of the play's most exquisite and poisonous scenes--the ones in which Hamlet, supposedly mad, repudiates Ophelia and insults her. Cain relocates the first crucial Hamlet-Ophelia scene to the middle of the night, reckless of chronology--putting both players in nightclothes, reducing the acerbic dialogue to lovers' quips, and smothering unambiguous lines, such...
...Weinberger '38 insists, that NATO plans no longer call for a demonstration explosion. But even if it's only a fantasy of our nation's chief foreign policy administrator (and one should notice that the White House did not disavow his statement), that is scary enough. For Haig's scenario demonstrates the ultimate idiocy of any nuclear deterrent: what happens when your bluff is finally called...
Haig's plan--and any like it--are the recipes for that nuclear disaster. Our defense is currently based on a credible nuclear deterrent. The arsenal needed to make good that threat implies, and certainly allows, a nuclear response if the deterrent fails. The "demonstration" explosion scenario merely carries the threat closer to the actual; in case anyone has forgotten Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the reasoning goes, this will prove our willingness to use such weapons. And what if the tanks keep rolling? Certainly the chances are good that such weapons will be used and Armageddon will be triggered. The trouble...