It's refreshing to get one man's sketch of the longer view, given that seemingly everyone is writing about short-term doom and gloom.
Cuban and General Manager Donnie Nelson believed the C.B.A. had shifted the dynamics of team-building so significantly that overpaying, even for a player as vital as Chandler, could spell long-term doom.
On its own terms, Doom 3 is the best single-player experience Id has supplied since the first Doom, with excellent game mechanics, terrifying monsters and an effective presentation, yet the game feels like a throwback; the original Doom with much better-looking versions of the same monsters.
This preoccupation with short-term doom and gloom tends to blind people to the fact we are living through one of the greatest periods of economic transformation in history, he reasons.
Before the birth of the euro, the EU's single currency in 1999, big business and the City were adamant that if Britain failed to join, it would spell long-term doom for the economy.
Following the release of Doom in 1993, games in this style were commonly termed "Doom clones"; in time this term has largely been replaced by "first-person shooter".
In the short term, Malthusian doom has been evaded by innovations that increased the food supply.
The problem, however, is that the major oil company Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer and that could, in the long term, spell doom for one of the last great, relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet.
Wynn demonstrates, time and again, how the taint of a jail term forever dooms these men to be defined by their "single worst deed" and to be sucked into a sadly preventable vortex of recidivism.
People who see the world in terms of doom are often confused with true prophets, whereas they may just be awkwardly generally paranoid.
