Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's the worst-case scenario? For Gates, it would be the court-ordered breakup of his company, but the investor might not fare badly. AT&T's spin-offs have consistently beaten the market since the government split that company. Forcing Microsoft to make its Windows source code available, opening it to competition from software writers would sting. But it would also produce incremental licensing revenue. Forcing Microsoft to design Windows to boot up AOL or another Web address would erode its dominance. But PC makers are starting to win that kind of flexibility on their own. It comes...
...order for Harvard to now win the league outright, it will not only have to defeat defending league champion Pennsylvania this week and then Yale on the road, but both Yale and Brown will also have to lose twice, and Cornell once. This scenario appears particularly unlikely considering that Brown's two remaining opponents are Dartmouth and Columbia, two squads that boast a combined record...
...will figure out how to twiddle and reset the hands. They might concoct Methuselah pills or inject Methuselah genes into fertilized eggs and fool our mortal bodies into believing that we are forever young. "Perhaps," Benzer muses, "aging can be better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most of us in the U.S. would live 1,200 years. We would outdo the first Methuselah, whose years were...
...some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot to the point that he or she would be unable to react. Others insist that the warning systems would have alerted the pilot to a slow leak, making an explosive depressurization a more likely scenario. "All we can say for certain right now," says Hannifin, "is that this incident may well have been unique in aviation history...
...rally is over, and about 90 of Webster's teachers and administrators are in the library talking about two of the school's top priorities: keeping students in school--and keeping them alive. The "girl with a gun" scenario is part of an exercise in crisis management--and is based on an incident that happened at the school five years ago. Teachers split into groups of nine to draft a response to various emergencies...