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...would stir. Arafat, says Barak, "will ask recognition from nations of the world, and most of the world will immediately recognize him. There are certain areas that he will claim and we will claim. Immediately a question will emerge: Who really is the sovereign there?" It's a scenario Barak hopes to avoid. "Unilateral steps would bring a quick countdown toward confrontation...
...fear that past saber-rattling could lead to bloody conflict. Arafat warned, when the September deadline was set last fall, that if the talks failed to produce an outcome by that date, he would unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. But he may have backed away from a confrontational scenario. "Senior Palestinian officials have indicated that Arafat will wait at least until the end of the year, to give Clinton time to broker a deal and to avoid creating a showdown that could become an issue in the U.S. presidential election," says Beyer. "Besides, Barak has also indicated that if Arafat...
...rampant - what if the television station and the newspaper in a city were owned by the same family? And what if that family hated, say, corn on the cob? Everyone in that town would be denied important news concerning that noble vegetable. Recognizing the danger inherent in such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree: No one entity may own more than one news outlet in any city, and no company may own more than one broadcast network. Such rules, for example, led to media mogul Rupert Murdoch being obliged...
...scenario is less a plot than a commercialized exploitation of primal material buried none too deep in mankind's collective unconscious and nowadays exploitable worldwide, down to the last plastic McDonald's mug. The hero with a thousand spin-offs...
SHILLER I didn't say "terrible crash." That is one plausible scenario, but other plausible scenarios are that [the Dow] will go up for a while and then just kind of hover for many years and give a low return. My book uses a 10-year horizon, which is viewed as the really long term. Ten to 20 years, it looks like we will have poor runs, maybe in the negative for 20 years--there is a good chance of that. In periods of high P/Es [price-to-earnings ratios, a measure of how expensive stocks are], stocks have done...