As budget cuts swarm about on all levels of government, the fiscal cliff we are approaching becomes a doomsday for families like mine, who rely on services for the disabled and early education/child care.
The Passion was performed on the South Bank terrace on Easter Saturday 1977, with Christ crucified among tourists, and, by 1985, had become a creation-to-doomsday trilogy, memorable for Brian Glover confirming, as many from the county had long believed, that God was a Yorkshireman.
The company also launched what would become a flagship reality show about survivalists: Doomsday Preppers.
Gas masks with become a crucial part in preparing for doomsday.
"I'm going to become a terrorist, too" -- an oratorical bomb-thrower with a doomsday message and the unhappy conviction that he is mostly going it alone these days.
If Steve Jobs had come out and announced May 21st was doomsday, I have no doubt bunker manufacturing would have become a very lucrative industry.
We live in an age of risk assessment and risk analysis, when doomsday scenarios have become daily anxieties, and planning for improbable but world-changing events has become a focus of disaster policy.
I proposed in 1983 that we should establish gene banks and I'm happy that this idea has become a reality with the government of Norway in setting up the Svalbard Gene Vault, often referred to as the "doomsday vault".
James Hansen became a global warming doomsday celebrity, advisor to Al Gore's media enterprises, recipient of a $250,000 Teresa Heinz Kerry Foundation award, public advocate for husband John's presidential bid, and was listed as a "grantee" on the 2006 Soros Foundation Network Report within their Open Society Institute's "Politicization of Science Program".
Mr. Camping, a 1942 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, who started out in Christian broadcasting in 1958 with one San Francisco AM radio station that eventually became a broadcast empire, proclaimed the doomsday date in 2008.
