Until now, the French president has had big plans for the future. But the pandemic has left him wondering how to save France and the global economy from a depression comparable to the crash of 1929. In an exclusive interview, he talks about the 'unthinkable':
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U.S. Thinks of Strategy for the Unthinkable
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The Obama administration wants to convey how to react to a nuclear attack but is worried about seeming alarmist. Above, a Port Authority Civilian Defense Drill in 1951.
Friends who had taken his finances in hand in the 1970s helped make him comfortably well off. In addition to the yacht Morning Cloud, Heath owned a modest terrace house in Wilton Street, Belgravia, and another, much more magnificent and dating from Queen Anne, in Salisbury's Cathedral Close.
cathedral close
close (ROAD) Show phonetics
noun [C] UK
a road, usually with private houses, which vehicles can only enter from one end:
He lives at 83 Barker Close.
close An enclosed place, especially land surrounding or beside a cathedral or other building.
unthinkable
(ŭn-thĭng'kə-bəl)
adj.
- Impossible to imagine; inconceivable: an unthinkable amount of money.
- Contrary to what is plausible or probable: That this project would achieve ultimate success was unthinkable at the time.
- Not to be thought of or considered; out of the question: Raising taxes was politically unthinkable.
unthinkably un·think'a·bly adv.
[形]
1 考えられない, 想像もできない.
2 まったく考慮に値しない, 問題にならない, とてもいただけない, 受け入れることができない.
━━[名]((通例〜s))考えられないこと, 想像も及ばないこと
think the unthinkable
途方もないことを考える.
途方もないことを考える.
alarmist
(ə-lär'mĭst)
n.
A person who needlessly alarms or attempts to alarm others, as by inventing or spreading false or exaggerated rumors of impending danger or catastrophe.
alarmism a·larm'ism n.
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