nightmare scenario

A former American official said his nightmare scenario would be a Chinese warship's firing on an Exxon oil-drilling ship.

A nightmare scenario: The United States continues to work on its "defensive" ASAT systems.

To encourage the PRC to take a more active role, the Obama administration should share America's nightmare scenario with the Chinese.

The nightmare scenario, however, is one in which risky companies start to default on their loans.

This, he suggests, is the "nightmare scenario" keeping Ben Bernanke and colleagues at the US Federal Reserve awake.

In other words, a scary nightmare scenario turned into something "fun" for a gamer.

Here's my nightmare scenario: It takes Congress months to pass a stimulus plan, and the legislation that actually emerges is too cautious.

The nightmare scenario is that Congress continues running trillion-dollar deficits, and that ends up triggering another financial crisis.

It is a nightmare scenario and the inverse of the hopeful future Obama invoked in Prague.

"The nightmare scenario is a period of extended low interest rates like Japan, " says Mr Clark of TD.

The nightmare scenario, once again, is that Mexican swine flu succeeds where Sars and avian flu failed, and becomes a global pandemic.

This is the nightmare scenario that every hiring manager, novice or pro, desperately wants to avoid.

The latest official figures highlight the nightmare scenario facing young people desperately searching for a job.

"That is the nightmare scenario, " he concluded.

For America, this is a nightmare scenario.

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the nightmare scenario of mass unemployment