Most strikingly, the material included four worst case possibilities: 1 The disaffected lab worker In which an unhappy biotech employee makes minor modifications to the genome of a virus – for example, avian flu H5N1.
But I think that would be a worst-case possibility".
Under the government's plan for the worst-case possibility, a pandemic flu could cause up to two million deaths in the United States.
In a worst-case possibility, regulators could have destroyed Wall Street in order to save it -- insisting on trials that could have ruined its credibility permanently.
The Yankees' worst-case possibility unfolded as Pérez retired the first 10 hitters, and they never got to face a right-handed pitcher.
The city's Department of Environmental Protection is so concerned about this worst-case possibility that it will not even allow the pipeline company to conduct tests at the site.
Sketching a worst-case possibility, he warned that if the Serb Republic declared independence, neighboring Croatia would respond by sending in troops, and Bosnian Muslims would take up arms.
Steve Leuthold of the Leuthold Group, a Minneapolis money management firm, calculated what he views as a worst-case possibility, in which the default rate sets a record and interest rates soar.
Initially, experts were concerned that a spill of this magnitude could create an environmental disaster in the downstream Danube, but the worst-case possibility appears to have been averted.
General Stanley McChrystal described the prospect of renewed internal conflict as a "worst-case possibility" which could be avoided provided the Afghan government received the backing it needed from its allies.
Assuming the cap drops to $50 million in 2010 — the worst-case possibility outlined by the league — the Knicks would have just enough room to sign one superstar (for about $15 million), and about $7 million left to fill out the roster.
