Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress took care last week to ensure that no such fate should threaten high federal officials, Cabinet officers, Supreme Court Justices and the legislators themselves. Both houses passed a bill authorizing cost of living increases for some 17,000 federal officials who do not already get them and whose salaries have in many cases been frozen since 1969. The increase could be as high as 8.66%-a figure reckoned to make salaries competitive with private industry-but President Ford has indicated that he will try to hold it to 5%. Among the beneficiaries are 535 members of Congress...
...bill that Ford, in turn, has vowed to veto. If he does and is sustained, the controls will expire on Aug. 31 and gas prices will rise, but who would be blamed most in the struggle is unclear. What does seem clear is that Ford's personal fate is much more likely to be determined by the nitty-gritty details of the domestic economy than by the lofty atmospherics of global summitry...
...moment, at least, Portugal's fate rests with the three generals who constitute the ruling Directory: President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves and Internal Security Forces Commander Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (see box page 26). Last week the Directory was installed by the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.), the revolution's founding group, and assumed powers previously wielded by the M.F.A.'s 30-man Revolutionary Council. There were immediate signs that the new triumvirate's opponents could expect tough treatment. Arriving back in Lisbon after a visit to Cuba, Saraiva...
...Paulina's husband Antigonus, William Larsen is forceful in defending Hermione to Leontes. When, on executing the order to expose the queen's baby daughter to fate and the elements he narrates his dream about Hermione, we actually see the queen upstage hovering in the air. Antigonus's departure is accompanied by Shakespeare's most startling stage direction: "Exit pursued by a bear," In Elizabethan days a real bear was used, such as the celebrated Sackerson mentioned in The Merry Wives of Windsor. This practice was revived in the 1948 British production, but it's a risky business...
Other Christian Democratic leaders tried to persuade Fanfani to resign gracefully. Moro conceded that the Christian Democrats had been guilty of an "arrogance of power" for not recognizing the changing moods of youth, women and labor. He professed "solidarity" with Fanfani but firmly dissociated the fate of the party secretary from that of his own government...