Word: fate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...economic rights of military personnel. A committee of top officials from Moscow and the republics has been set to work by Gorbachev on drafting a new treaty of the union. But one major item of business, so important that it may determine Gorbachev's political future and the very fate of the country, awaits his return this week: finishing the draft of a new plan for introducing a market economy...
...City Council Monday night called on Harvard to resolve another controversy dogging the hotel project: the fate of two 30-year old Norway maple trees at the back...
Kurosawa's delicate but insistent linkage of individual fate with the world's fate permits Dreams to avoid solipsism and grants it a certain cautionary urgency. What really compels one's attention, however, is not what he is saying but how he is saying it. At 80, Kurosawa, like many an older artist before him, is impatient with artifice; he has long since proved himself a master of complex narrative. Now he wants to tell what he knows as simply as possible. There are no wild juxtapositions of the creatures of his sleeping world with the images of his waking...
State Department officials are concerned about the fate of the government, but right now the Bush Administration would like Panama's leaders to stop their squabbling and take aim at such pressing problems as unemployment. During the Noriega crisis, analysts said toppling the dictator would be easy compared with creating a stable government. Now they are seeing how right they were...
...what if the blockade is effective and Saddam proves as good as his threat to make sure his Western "guests" suffer the same fate as Iraqis? The Administration's answer is that it would try to fine-tune the effort to maximize the discomfort of Iraqis, and thus the political pressure on Saddam, without causing actual starvation. To stave off a famine, it might, for example, agree to permit emergency shipments of baby formula and grain...