Search Details

Word: scenarioed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Though vehemently denied, the scenario is a likely one, since Cavazos agrees with most of Bush's views on education, which include support for a strong Education Department (Reagan wanted to abolish it) and an active role for the Federal Government. Regarded as a low-key consensus builder, the new Secretary is a stylistic counterpoint to his pugnacious predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Please, Children, Do Not Leave | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

That repeat version of Reagan's 1981 rosy scenario came under fire from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who told the National Economic Commission on Wednesday that the supply-side approach was "fanciful" and implied that Bush's "flexible freeze" plan for reducing the budget would not work. "If we do not act promptly," said Greenspan, "the imbalances in the economy are such that the effects of the deficit will be increasingly felt and with some immediacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Markets Vote | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...Accused, screenwriter Tom Topor and director Jonathan Kaplan imagine a worst-case scenario that poses all of these questions and plays them out in a moral twilight zone where ambiguity gives way to atrocity. The movie boasts a daring, acute performance by Jodie Foster as Sarah, the coarse-mouthed waitress with the SXY SADI license plate, who can fist her face into a pugnacious sulk or vamp persuasively enough to steam your specs. In the process, The Accused has defied Hollywood odds to become an autumn hit, earning $18 million in its first 24 days of release. It has also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Women and Brutal Men | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

These are variations on motherhood's worst-case scenario: you turn your back for a moment or make, under pressure of conflicting emotions, what seems to you only a minor error in judgment, and suddenly your child is snatched from you. For Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) in A Cry in the Dark, the loss is permanent: she never sees her baby again, alive or dead. For Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) in The Good Mother, the outcome is not quite so cruel: she faces losing custody of her daughter Molly, but not the child's death. Yet both mothers find themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Star-Crossed Mothers A CRY IN THE DARK | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...best case scenario for Graham would be that the 2870 blank ballots--more than 17 percent of the total ballots cast--at some point were marked with a preference for her. Add to this total the number of Thompson votes which Graham claims might have been meant for her, and the outcome could go either...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Graham-Thompson Election Exceeds Voting Technology | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

First | Previous | 445 | 446 | 447 | 448 | 449 | 450 | 451 | 452 | 453 | 454 | 455 | 456 | 457 | 458 | 459 | 460 | 461 | 462 | 463 | 464 | 465 | Next | Last