Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although these personal attributes may underlie Clinton's political success, that is all they do: They are a simple foundation. Many other traits also explain his remarkable career. From the beginning, fate and a fortuitous sense of timing have ensured that Clinton's electoral opponents have been far from titanic...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, who will ultimately decide the fate of the specific expenditures in the report, was never directly asked about the fiscal feasibility of the report's recommendations...
...last week's congressional battle the issue was the fate of a pulp mill owned by the Ketchikan Pulp Co., a division of Louisiana-Pacific Corp. that employs 600. It's a high-cost operation that relied on below-market-cost timber from the Tongass to make dissolving pulp, a cellulose product that shows up in everything from rayon to ice cream. Tongass timber was cheap because in 1954 the Federal Government gave KPC a 50-year contract guaranteeing the mill rights to vast amounts of Alaskan timber at fire-sale prices. In 1990 Congress tried to redress this giveaway...
...always uncomfortable to be the hare in the fable. But it's the fate of DAVID CARUSO, who shot to such prominence in the first season of NYPD Blue that he abruptly left for the movies, breaking his contract and leaving few friends. Two bad films later, Caruso wants to return to TV to play, according to Variety, a crusading attorney. But in his rush to leave TV, he signed a deal with ABC and ex-boss Steven Bochco, promising not to return until 1998. After some negotiation, it appears they won't stand in his way. Meanwhile, Dennis Franz...
Most importantly, we must root for the success of Celebration. The town will be a project closely watched, and its fate closely scrutinized. In an America which has often become extremely cynical about the dreams of prosperity it once represented, this most visible example of that skepticism must not fail. It is comforting to know that somewhere in America, a town which embodies both our nostalgia and our quest for progress looks toward the future. Maybe Disney can help bring life a little bit closer to what we would like to imagine...