"To prepare only for a worst-case scenario is wrong thinking.
He speculated that Tokyo Electric was being "prudent and thinking about the worst-case scenario," adding, "I think they don't want to be seen as optimistic".
I'm thinking worst-case scenario: civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war, maybe.
But in this case, she recalled thinking, "Worst-case scenario, I'll do something fun even if the person's not interesting".
The guard's eight combat divisions, its pride and joy, have been steadfastly excluded from any significant role in the army's plans to fight two regional wars (presumably in the Gulf and the Korean peninsula) simultaneously the worst-case scenario on which much Pentagon thinking is based.
"I am always thinking of the worst-case scenario," Ms. Chiti said.
I explain the fear that women report when they are shouted at in the street, and how they are always thinking about the worst-case scenario of serious sexual assault".
For every jury that tries a white-collar criminal for tax evasion, collusion, conspiracy, embezzlement, racketeering or fraud, there is a lawyer thinking about the worst-case scenario: how to get a client into the best prison with the easiest sentence possible and smoothly bridge the vast divide between polite society and prison.
"Everyone was thinking of the worst-case scenario," Kimelman said, "and we had to ask ourselves, 'Is there a role for us to play?' " The news site was to be seeded with nonprofit funds but with a goal that it could eventually subsist on advertising revenue.
