Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that money gets invested. This would, they said, undermine support for Social Security's lesser-known role as a safety net for the working poor and disabled. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat, predicted that the safety-net part of the program would suffer the fate of welfare. "Support for the redistributive aspects of Social Security would quickly erode," he said...
...Cambridge Historical Commission met yesterday to decide the fate of the site of the existing Tasty restaurant, but decided to delay a decision until next month...
...Harvard Coop has not yet met as drastic a fate as its Yale counterpart...
...mostly gay neighborhoods around the U.S., it was common to run across old friends turned stick figures, men carved to the bone by illness. Thirty-year-olds studied the writings of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychologist who identified the stages in which the dying accept their fate and dryly marked their own progress, good schoolboys acing their last assignment. And everyone had a story about ashes. You heard about Dale, whose ashes blew back into everyone's face because the wind was coming ashore that day on the Long Island beach. You heard about Ron, whose ashes were piled...
...thirtysomething days are long gone. Here he's a desperate detective--the central figure in one of the more profound crime dramas ever to hit a television screen. Lyrically bleak in tone, EZ Streets is a haunting meditation on moral ambiguity, on city politics and--most effectively--on fate. Alas, the dismally rated series was abruptly canceled after two airings. Alone, perhaps, we anxiously await its scheduled return next year...