Word: scenarioizing
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...education. In a sense, they transcend the usual expectations; for them, Harvard never was Times Square with training wheels—it was a repository of experience and expertise that might be transported home to improve the lot of one’s countrymen. It’s a scenario that’s difficult not to romanticize.It’s all much harder when you come from plain-and-simple Canada or, worse, from the American Midwest or Southwest or South or West or Northwest or anywhere but two cities in California and one in Illinois. Take...
...That scenario wouldn't be without precedent. Arroyo has already survived two coup attempts during her six years in office. She herself came to power after her predecessor, Joseph Estrada, was ousted in a military-backed protest movement dubbed People Power II after the nonviolent revolution that overthrew dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. In September, the country's anticorruption court convicted Estrada of plundering more than $15 million while in office and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Yet on Oct. 25, Arroyo granted Estrada a pardon on the grounds that he had already served more than six years under house...
...Throw in the fact that disappointed investors will likely migrate to those funds that did well during the recent bout of volatility and you have a shakeout scenario. Huw Van Steenis, an asset-management analyst with Morgan Stanley, told a forum of European hedge-fund managers in October that a "super-league" of funds is slowly taking control of the industry. In 2006, 67% of all assets under management were controlled by this élite group of the top 100 funds, compared with 49% in 2003. "We think there's going to be a Darwinian process, a sorting...
...Nowadays it's much tougher to keep a lid on a juicy story as these events testify. Razi Mireskandari, a partner at the law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton and a specialist in media law, says he can imagine a scenario in which a gag order might become untenable because websites, wherever they are based, "are becoming freely accessible by nearly everybody. There could be an issue of trying to put your thumb in the dam, but it hasn't quite got to that stage yet." In the case of the anonymous royal embroiled in the alleged blackmail plot...
...territory. Turkey has agreed to consider talks with Iraqi government representatives, including, perhaps, Iraqi Kurds--but not with the PKK, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist group. Turkey may yet send troops across the border, but if communication channels with Iraqi leaders stay open, Washington's worst-case scenario of a clash between its allies may be averted...