Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current gyrating cost of crude is the single most volatile factor in the world economy's fate. Since the Iraqi invasion, the price of oil has nearly doubled, to a spot rate of $37 per bbl. at the end of last week. America's monthly bill for imported oil has risen in proportion, to an estimated $7 billion, with the increase acting as a depressant on the economy. The price of regular unleaded gasoline has climbed 27 cents a gal., to $1.35, since early August. At these price levels, the heating-oil bill for the average Northeast homeowner could rise...
...Then fate took a hand. In mid-June, the economy took a nose dive, dragging corporate profits and federal tax receipts down too. In mid-June Darman boosted his 1991 deficit estimate to $159 billion, up from $138 billion just a month before. Unless a plan for cutting almost $100 billion could be produced by Oct. 1, spending cuts required by Gramm-Rudman would force the layoff of thousands of government workers. Within days, Administration officials began to utter dire predictions. It was the perfect opportunity for a sudden conversion, and Bush took...
...Murals, by their nature, cannot be moved around, and so Rivera's coverage in the show hardly does justice to his enormous talent; it is a mere footnote to the big Rivera exhibition seen in the U.S. in 1986. As for Orozco and Siqueiros, their work has suffered the fate of much propaganda art. It tends to look coarse and melodramatic, even on the small scale of the easel painting. One much prefers the fierce, narcissistic and mysteriously sweet images of Frida Kahlo, which anchor the end of the exhibition...
...that was a false view, even before events in the Persian Gulf suddenly made America very relevant indeed. The situation is not as simple as the declinists claim, our fate surely not that bleak. The 21st could and should be -- "to a significant degree" -- a Second American Century...
...fate of the pro bono requirement, oneversion of which would compel students to donatetime counseling needy clients, will not bedetermined until the Law School's faculty voteslater this month...