Word: dooming
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...alcoholic haze or breaking a safety rule. For that matter taped cockpit conversations have demonstrated all too much inattention to duty among commercial airline pilots as well And as last week's disaster shows so graphically, the element of mere chance in course, timing and speed can doom even the most experienced pilots, as well as the many "souls on board" whose lives ended so innocently on a sunny morning over San Diego...
Solzhenitsyn, indeed, is a self-styled prophet of doom, and such pessimists are hardly used to warm receptions. But, unlike Biblical prophets, who reputedly spoke to all in their native tongues, this fails to translate very well to the West...
...prospect of such a major Administration program going to its doom prompted Carter to cut short his vacation by two days and hurry back to the White House for some intense lobbying. He summoned a group of eleven Governors and warned them that the energy package must pass. "The entire world," he said, "is looking at our Government to see whether we have the national will to deal with this difficult challenge. If this legislation is not enacted, it will have a devastating effect on our national image, the value of the dollar, our balance of trade and inflation...
Vanderbilt's Soupart gives least three reasons for failure: 1) difficulties in the tiny egg the culture chamber into the uterus, 2) undetected chromosomal abnormalities that doom the egg before it has a chance to implant itself, and 3) interference in the acceptance of the egg by the very hormones that were used to encourage ovulation...
...guardians of the value of its currency. They immerse themselves in financial esoterica, dress somberly in three-piece blue suits, and give the impression that they speak only to one another and to God. When they do appear in public, they issue Delphian warnings, usually of impending inflationary doom. An optimistic central banker has been defined as "one who thinks the situation is deteriorating less rapidly than before...