Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor revolts, foreign competition, and an inability to make profits grow. These problems, according to Rothschild, "are based in historical change, and may be compared to the troubles of other industries in other times...most particularly to those of the railroads and textile mills in late-Victorian Britain. The fate of these businesses show a similar pattern: innovation, excitement, inflow of capital, rapid growth, market saturation, demand creation, decreasing productivity and return on capital, a fixation on policies of the past." She might add: subsequent resentment among workers and consumers, competition from abroad, desperate searches for new markets, failure...
...People. When the first initiates began returning to the capital last month, they refused to answer greetings from old friends; according to the tradition of Yondo, they are now new people totally divorced from their past. The fate of many who have not returned is still unknown. Some are reportedly being held for further indoctrination. Others may be dead. Several who tried to escape from the camps were found buried with their heads or limbs left exposed as grotesque reminders of the price to be paid for resisting Tombalbaye's decree...
Reports from such blue-ribbon committees are often duly noted by U.S. Administrations, then quickly forgotten. (Such was the fate of a 1969 Rockefeller Report on Latin America that criticized U.S. interference in the affairs of Latin American nations.) This time there is good reason to believe that Washington is paying attention; William D. Rogers, a Kennedy Democrat who helped draw up the study, is now Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and will be a leading member of the U.S. delegation to Quito. Rogers has said that he would like to see a normalization of relations with...
...were immediately separated. I was forced to remove my clothing, except for shorts, and was dragged off to a small cell and left alone. Having lived in Brazil for most of the past ten years, I had heard all the horror stories about torture, and I wondered whether my fate would be the same as Paulo Wright's; the son of U.S. missionaries, he was arrested more than a year ago, and has not been heard from since. To calm myself, I repeated, very deliberately, the 23rd Psalm...
Meanwhile, the figures are in on the fate of the proxy resolutions Harvard voted on last year. All but one of them failed to gain a majority of stockholder approval, but most received the 3 percent of stockholder support they need to be introduced again this year...