Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Denying charges that he accepted drug money during his 1994 campaign, President Ernesto Samper Pizano rejected calls to step down and suggested a referendum to let the people decide his fate. Critics denounced the plan as costly and having the potential to incite a civil war. Students and veterans demanded that Samper resign after his ex-campaign manager said the President had known the Cali cartel was funding his election bid with millions of dollars. Former campaign treasurer Santiago Medina fueled their anger by saying Samper personally gave the order to distribute some $400,000 of drug money...
...Demi Moore), a struggling artist and devoted single mom, would cheerfully set aside her preoccupations to volunteer for jury duty. Anyone else in her circumstances would be out getting a doctor's note, but no, she's actually eager to take a few weeks off to help decide the fate of a Mafia boss accused of conspiring to commit murder...
...year, we as a nation will have to decide the future of Social Security which, if kept unchecked, will force the tax burden of the average American taxpayer to increase 100 percent--that's right, 100 percent--by 2015, according to the Congressional Budget Office. We will determine the fate of this program that has promoted a policy of "Robin Hood in reverse"--taking from the poor and the young to give to the wealthy and retired...
Unfortunately, Garcia Abrego's arrest will not reduce the flow of drugs from Mexico into the U.S. for long. American agents have been told that Amado Carrillo, Mexico's No. 1 trafficker, is now sitting on 75 tons of cocaine. Regardless of Garcia Abrego's fate, that stockpile will no doubt eventually make its way to the streets of Los Angeles and New York and Chicago...
...fate was sealed at a meeting of Viacom's board last Wednesday morning, attended by all the company's directors except him. Over a breakfast that almost no one touched, Redstone spent 15 minutes explaining why he felt Biondi was not providing the "nimble and aggressive" leadership the company needed. After 2 1/2 hours of discussion, the board voted unanimously to oust the CEO. "It was a very intense meeting," recalls director George Abrams. "Later Sumner told me it was one of the toughest things he ever...