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  • Accompanying the cries of the Cassandras has been another (sometimes overlapping) chorus of diatribes aimed at policy makers working to soften the pain of the adjustment process.

    Let's Get Real About the Economy 2008

  • Accompanying the cries of the Cassandras has been another chorus of diatribes aimed at policy makers working to soften the pain of the adjustment process.

    Let's Get Real About the Economy 2008

  • Accompanying the cries of the Cassandras has been another (sometimes overlapping) chorus of diatribes aimed at policy makers working to soften the pain of the adjustment process.

    Let's Get Real About the Economy 2008

  • People concerned about global warming and other ecological risks are often derided as "Cassandras" by those who have learned nothing of what befell Troy when its rulers ignored Cassandra's advice, and are thereby potentially condemning the world to repeat that history on a much vaster scale.

    Larvatus Prodeo 2009

  • People concerned about global warming and other ecological risks are often derided as "Cassandras" by those who have learned nothing of what befell Troy when its rulers ignored Cassandra's advice, and are thereby potentially condemning the world to repeat that history on a much vaster scale.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

  • Here's the letter, by Jim Mcelfish, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute Washington: column to deride government officials and scientists warning of the consequences of global warming, and he suggested that these climate-change "Cassandras" slow down and not cater to

    Center for American Progress Action Fund 2009

  • Modern-day Cassandras have been sounding alarms about the risks of nuclear power for years, and those warnings, like Cassandra's, have fallen on deaf ears.

    Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011

  • Modern-day Cassandras have been sounding alarms about the risks of nuclear power for years, and those warnings, like Cassandra's, have fallen on deaf ears.

    Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011

  • Modern-day Cassandras have been sounding alarms about the risks of nuclear power for years, and those warnings, like Cassandra's, have fallen on deaf ears.

    Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011

  • Modern-day Cassandras have been sounding alarms about the risks of nuclear power for years, and those warnings, like Cassandra's, have fallen on deaf ears.

    Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011

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