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...Friendly problem solving. In addition to serving food and smiling, flight attendants must also ease the common fears of first-time flyers and those who always worry about the worst-case scenario...
Western defense experts have been busy plugging the numbers in Gorbachev's various initiatives into their computerized war games, along with plenty of worst-case assumptions about the readiness of NATO. As a result, the bottom line of many such calculations has changed: the most often cited "sneak- attack scenario," which might before have yielded a Soviet victory, now leads to stalemate or even defeat...
...first, less likely scenario is that allowing state legislatures to determine abortion laws will give local politics an unprecedented ideological character. William F. Buckley predicts that the Republicans, armed with the emotional abortion issue, will gain a majority in most state legislatures...
Every year, it seems, the same scenario takes place. The University announces a tuition hike that greatly outpaces inflation. It then tries to justify this high increase by blaming the Reagan administration's attempts to slash federal funds for higher education and emphasizing the high cost of maintaining competitive faculty salaries and upgrading the University's physical facilities. Financial aid officials then assure the two-thirds of the student body who receive financial aid that their needs will...
...everyone believes that pesticides are as serious a threat as the NRDC claims. Professor Bruce Ames, head of the biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley, labels the NRDC's alarms "wild." Says he: "They are piling one worst-case scenario on top of another." Moreover, Ames points out, plants produce their own poisons to ward off pests. "The proportion of positive cancer tests is about as high for natural pesticides as for synthetic pesticides, and we are eating 10,000 times more of the natural ones," he notes. The NRDC insists that its risk estimates are conservative. They...