Word: specter
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Their aim is not necessarily to make a profit, but rather to preserve capital from the ravages of inflation and the specter of creeping socialism in their own countries. All see the U.S. as a bulwark of political stability in a changing world...
City officials also object to another part of the plan which gives Harvard a one-month option of purchasing property owned by any Faculty member covered by the plan--raising the old specter of University expansion...
...strike by 37,000 workers at Iran's nationalized oil refineries, which initially reduced production from 6 million bbl. per day to about 1.5 million bbl. That strike not only cost the government about $60 million a day in oil revenues, but also suddenly raised the specter of petroleum shortages in Japan, Israel, Western Europe and, to a much lesser degree, in the U.S.; all these countries depend in part on Iranian crude...
...course, somewhere in the collective unconscious (heavy on the un) lurks the specter of Armageddon, but even that fear has been defused, what with these new-fangled, clean, tactical weapons. And like many other vaguely leftist movements without mass appeal, the anti-nuclear juggernaut has generated more scorn than support...
Nuclear power did much to help the U.S. get through the storms and coal strike that crippled fossil-fuel plants last winter, providing much of the electricity for hard-hit New England and the battered Midwest. Similarly, nuclear power could save the country from the specter of industrial shutdowns and power blackouts as the oil runs out. Even conservative estimates are that the U.S. will need 390 nukes to provide at least 27% of its electric power by 2000. The time to start building these plants is now. Otherwise, they will not be ready when the nation really needs them...