Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual, Clinton looked for ways to build bridges to an ally with whom he finds little in common besides fate. Both men have a talent for speechmaking and a natural presence on television. And both came of age in America in the wake of John F. Kennedy's assassination. When he was 14, Netanyahu moved with his family to Pennsylvania, where his father taught college. Clinton's staff came up with a thoughtful gift for the Prime Minister, a copy, complete with the author's signature, of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage...
...snobbery toward housewifery is also coming back to haunt me in my personal relationships. When I was younger and my father got home late from work, the tension would mount during his impending arrival until he walked sheepishly through the door to meet his fate--my mother's wrath at his disruption of the household routine. I generally took my father's side on these matters. After all, he was just doing the job (since in my mind, having a job meant going to an office) and she should just feel thankful that he worked so hard...
After more than a year of consultation, including a nine-month deadlock, the University and the city of Cambridge have agreed on the fate of Harvard's nearly 700 formerly rent-controlled properties...
...with. Indeed, during this political upheaval it takes discipline to keep one's attention on the serious business of state that must continue. The entertaining theatrics of presidential politics notwithstanding, however, the voters should realize that there is more at stake than a contest between two individuals, the fate of a whole nation is tied to the fate of the victor...
Coia's life is far removed from the asbestos strippers and hod carriers his union represents. He lives in an oceanfront mansion in Barrington, Rhode Island, and drives Ferraris. He does not know his own eventual fate since being tossed into "a game of political football by opponents of change and right-wing extremists," he says. But he is eager to talk down his White House ties. Though he sat at Clinton's table during a fund raiser as recently as May and has enjoyed at least one breakfast meeting with the First Lady, Coia insists he was never really...