Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual graduate-school scenario: three university professors facing down one anxious scholar during the dread oral exam on some deservedly obscure topic. Who cared? The President of Egypt, for one. And if Anwar Sadat figured the rest of his country should also take an interest, who was going to argue? Thus when First Lady Jehan Sadat, 47, defended her master's thesis (on the influence of English Romantic Poet Shelley on Arabic literature), the entire 2¼ hours were presented on national TV. At the end of the program, Anwar's angel got an A. Predictably, sniped some...
...recital of this scenario by Dr. Howard Hiatt, dean of Harvard's School of Public Health, stunned a conference in Cambridge, Mass. Declared Hiatt: "Inadequate means of dealing with an epidemic permits only one approach-that of prevention...
...they correctly stress that such a frightening scenario is more likely today than ever. Between the two energy scares of 1973 and 1979, America's dependence on oil imports actually climbed 25 per cent. And though imports have boomed, more than two of every five Americans still believe the U.S. is energy self-sufficient, according to a Gallup poll last winter...
...second annual Christmas scenario for exhibiting the American hostages was cruelly strung out by Tehran's outrageous propagandists. After keeping the 52 hostages hidden from world view for eight months, Iran's squabbling authorities announced early in the week that not even a holiday visit by non-Iranian Christian clergymen would be permitted this year, a move that fed fears in the U.S. that some of the Americans were not well-or not even alive. For the first time the State Department said it had information that some of the hostages were not getting "adequate medical attention...
...longer the factory for the industrial world, the United States still carries the largest share of the burden for sparking global development. Muller attributes the stagflation that has mired national growth rates in a steady through to a vicious cricle of inflation and low productivity and likens the American scenario to the sputtering economies of less-developed countries. To combat what he calls this "Latin Americization" of the United States, he proposes concerted political efforts to both stimulate world-wide demand for American products and national consensus for greater efficiency and equity at home. Although he doesn't fall prey...