Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, this exaggerated scenario may not occur. After all, guns are different from all other legally produced products in their ability to harm individuals, but the bottom line is that successful lawsuits are not adequate replacements for law, and we should not become so excited by monetary compensation that we become complacent in our pursuit of better legislation...
Even if that would risk dragging the hearings into the holiday season, it would also add weight to "the process," something that might mollify conservatives. But under this scenario, Democrats would insist on calling more witnesses too, a move that, if blocked by Republicans, would make G.O.P. members look more partisan. Hyde has already invited that criticism by reportedly suggesting last week that he would consider blocking Democrats from questioning Starr on sore points in the conduct of his own investigation, like whether his office illegally denied Lewinsky access to her lawyer...
...Room monkey jamboree; a sweet scene of Tommy and Dil learning to share a blanket. But the charm of the TV show has been coarsened and franticized. The film's writers (David N. Weiss and J. David Stem) and directors (Norton Virgien and Igor Kovalyov) have taken the Spielberg scenario as their template--children separated from their parents, then found--but this one has the harried air of The Goonies. And the film may have overestimated its hold on a few core constituencies. At a screening last week, a child sobbed as the monkeys stole Dil; a mother checked...
...Mark Thompson. "The nuclear threat to the U.S. is more likely to come from rogue elements or terrorists bringing in a device on a cabin cruiser or a Piper Cub than from another country firing intercontinental ballistic missiles. And maintaining a nuclear deterrent doesn't protect us from that scenario." Besides, waiting for the Russians would force the Pentagon to spend hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining weapons systems that will be scrapped as soon as the agreement is endorsed...
...Scenario C: He's extremely hurt, you feel liberated but upset with him for putting this burden on you, and you never talk to him again (somewhat likely but only for the more melodramatically prone...