Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through an ironic twist of fate, 20 full garbage bags of used cups--which were to have been displayed,--were accidently thrown out by Harvard employees...
...student's the sweeping tax rollback sponsored by the Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT)--Question 3 on this year's ballot. Many state education leaders contend that the CLT petition would devastate academia in Massachusetts, and students across the state have taken an active interest in the petition's fate...
...hike and a new capital gains top rate of 28%. Speaker Thomas Foley followed up later with a call to the President, who accepted the plan. As both conservative Southern Democrats and House liberals began signaling their approval, Foley was confident that the new plan would not meet the fate of the budget-summit package that was voted down in the House three weeks earlier...
...letting the God Squad make the toughest calls. That would be the effective demise of the act. The Senate last week defeated a measure that would have empowered the God Squad to settle the dispute over timbering the ancient forests. But the broader question remains. Ruling on a species' fate has eternal consequences. A political appointee's vision dims beyond the next election. Matters of such gravity ought to reflect society's broadest interests. Biologists, environmentalists, theologians, historians and, yes, representatives of industry have a claim to participate in such decisions. Some in this Administration and its predecessor have criticized...
Rollins had to be eliminated because he had discovered Bush's true identity as a closet Democrat and was trying to unmask the traitor in public. He sealed his fate when, on Oct.15, he faxed a memo to Republican candidates containing these instructions: "Do not hesitate to oppose either the President or proposals being advanced in Congress...