Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understandable concern shown by Gerald Ford over Nixon's personal fate, the larger national interest was submerged. Yet it is not too much to hope that Ford, jolted by the equally understandable objections to his high handed action, now appreciates the larger perspective. If he does not now join in those efforts to see that the full truth of America's most devastating political scandal is preserved and published, he runs the high risk that his own historical record will be linked to that of the discredited President who selected him as his successor. It is a fate that...
...mercy, but there can be no such thing as mercy until justice has been accomplished by the courts. Since it circumvented justice, Mr. Ford's act was merely indulgent favoritism, a bland and unworthy substitute for mercy. Real mercy could have modified Richard Nixon's legal fate, but it would not have shielded him from the law and his responsibility to disclose the truth...
...desk is meant for reading and writing and not for putting shoes on, no matter how spick-and-span they may be. I am horrified to imagine what the new U.S. President will do in his office next. Please ask him not to chew gum while deciding the fate of nations...
...imagine no fate more unpleasant than to be marooned on a desert island with (barring John Kenneth Galbraith) one of the pretentious hacks and quacks who voted for one another as intellectual elitists in the poll taken by Sociologist Charles Kadushin. What else might be expected when the criterion for determining intellect was publication in the New York Review of Bombast or the Prejudice Review...
...fate of the admissions office depends completely on what the Strauch committee concludes; if it recommends sex-blind admissions, as expected, there will be little sense in maintaining separate admissions offices. And if there is a single admissions office, separate financial aid offices would make little sense, especially since Radcliffe would not have enough money to handle the increased financial aid burdens sex-blind admissions would bring...