'Apocryphal-Type Doom Scenario' "He talked in the third person about some apocryphal-type doom scenario," Mr. Denis said.

"Oftentimes, people only hear the sterile numbers and economic news we talk about, or oftentimes people only hear our gloom and doom scenario," he said.

In economic and finance matters Sarkozy is not remarkable either - a doom scenario is forecast for 2012.

The occasion was a speech made by George W. Bush, during his campaign for the presidency, criticizing conservatives for placing so much stress on the country's cultural decline ("our gloom and doom scenarios").

Let's hope the doom scenario simply doesn't apply in Vieques - either to beachside thieves or to evil developers.

But the true millennarian may want to just forget about such stocks and take a tip from John Westergaard, an analyst of tiny stocks and a believer in the gloomiest doom scenario.

Denis, his Flatbush landlord, said Ferguson appeared even more unstable upon his return, speaking in the third person about "some apocryphal-type doom scenario" that included black people rising up and striking down "their pompous rulers and oppressors".

It was the standard doom scenario, depicting the fate forecast by Malthus for any species that outbreeds the carrying capacity of its niche.

Mr President, I do not want to depict a doom scenario, as has been done here.

I do not want to depict a doom scenario for the future, nor do I want to look back in anger about the failure of Copenhagen - although I am angry.