Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, New York's immediate financial fate was still in doubt. State and city officials were bitterly wrangling over the powers to be given to the proposed Municipal Assistance Corporation (dubbed "Big Mac"), which would attempt to convert the city's short-term debt into long-term bonds. The banking community insisted that Big Mac should exercise tight control over the city's short-term borrowing and receive all city sales tax revenue so as to make sure that the bonds it issued would be repaid. City officials balked at such a surrender of their fiscal authority...
...phosphate deposits. Now Spain is planning to abandon the whole area. The reason: threats by neighboring Arab states to liberate all or part of the sparsely populated (60,000 nomads), mineral-rich region. Pressure on Madrid intensified last month when ten Spanish soldiers based in the Sahara disappeared. Their fate remains unknown. It has also been reported that Moroccan troops fired on two Spanish helicopters. Another headache for Madrid is the Prolisario Front, an indigenous nomad independence movement thought to be backed by both Algeria and Libya; last week the Front captured 14 Arab members of the colony...
Hearings will open today in Cambridge to decide the fate of a proposed Dunkin' Donuts and a $5.8-million parking garage for Harvard Square...
...good deal easier to hint at terror than to give it substance. Director Robert Enrico takes a very easy route indeed in Le Secret, which has to do with the sweaty anxieties of Jean-Louis Trintignant as he dodges the persistent minions of his fate. Trintignant, imperviously dour, plays a fellow named David who has discovered an inhumane and generally horrendous secret government project and been tossed into prison. So terrible was David's accidental revelation that he can hardly bring himself to talk about it, much less go into all the gory details. His maddeningly mute fear...
...dying days of sailing ships on unspoiled waters, and a history of a locale that winter tourists tripping through the Caribbean rarely see. Most memorably, it is a spare adventure tale about simple men driven to the extremities of pain and death by ignorance, greed, weakness and inexplicable fate. ∙Paul Gray