Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quality prices? It is no surprise that Loker is losing money. They take away the few food options that existed last year and leave us with microwaved pizza and burritos already available at a more convenient Store24. As good as it is, the Greenhouse may suffer a similar fate, if the price-raising continues, despite the edible food it offers. --Adon S. Hwang...
...fate didn't have a role in that turn of events, consider that the previous field goal, a 21-yard boot set up by a 62-yard catch and run by senior Colby PRINCETON 12 HARVARD...
Jiang's main break, of course, was being chosen by Deng as his successor in 1989. It didn't hurt that Deng lived on for eight years as Jiang's protector or that he eventually grew too feeble to dump his protege--the fate of two previous heirs apparent. But there's also a sense in China that the relatively nonideological, technocratic Jiang may be the right leader for a China bursting with political, social and economic tensions, that what China needs now is an adroit, adaptable pol rather than a towering titan...
...national academic standards. But his effort has not fared too well. The voluntary tests he proposed met with strong criticism from conservatives, who argued that they would bring too much federal control over education, and the proposal is now languishing in a congressional committee. In a sense, though, the fate of Clinton's initiative may be largely irrelevant because the question of standards is being vigorously addressed by the states themselves...
...heard of the Hollywood Ten, the Little Rock Nine and the Chicago Seven. By fate or design or bad luck, they came to embody their tumultuous times, as we social commentators like to say: the McCarthy era, the end of enforced racial segregation, the street riots of the 1960s. But have you heard of the NEA Four? A generation from now, historians may see that hapless quartet as embodying the less than tumultuous times of the 1990s. For this is the era of tiny commotions...