Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...blood. Though he vowed to run for the presidency again, legislators in his own Jatiya Party were resigning last week and even military loyalists encouraged him to go. Scandals, a tyrant's image and a 50% rise in oil prices since the Persian Gulf crisis broke out sealed his doom. Said one movement leader: "From government officers to ricksha pullers, all were out in the street. It was phenomenal." It will also be phenomenal if democracy manages to heal a country that was born in a brutal secession from Pakistan in 1971 and has stumbled from coup to coup since...
...electronic diary. "We are being told how many casualties we can expect on the first day, on the second day," says Alan Chartock, a political scientist at the New Paltz campus of the State University of New York. "The enemy is talking to us, giving us nightly forecasts of doom...
Even among those fortunate enough to be insured, the leading side effect of illness is often financial doom. Consider the elderly, whose federally sponsored insurance program, Medicare, inspires so much drooling and sharpening of knives at budget time. Even with Medicare, older Americans are forced to spend more than 15% of their income for medical care annually. And since nursing-home care is virtually uncovered, the elderly are pushed to degrading extremes -- like divorcing a beloved spouse -- in order to qualify for help through a long-term debilitating illness. Or, as more than one public figure has suggested, they...
...avert it? My recommendation would be to spike the water with Prozac. Just mix it in with the fluoride. I'm serious! Highly diluted, of course, and tapering off after just a few months, as soon as we get off this gloom-and- doom kick. Because more than we'd like to think, economic and financial swings are creatures of fuzzy, nonquantitative things like psychology, confidence and the national mood...
...same: it's fun to be a bomb thrower until the bomb blows up in your face. Texas Republican Clayton Williams squandered his lead over state treasurer Ann Richards with an unending stream of bloopers. He called Richards a liar and refused to shake her hand. His doom was sealed in the closing days of the campaign when he not only revealed that he was ignorant of the only constitutional amendment on the ballot but also admitted that he had paid no income taxes in 1986, even though he is a multimillionaire. Williams' gaffes, along with his opposition to abortion...