Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Courthouse in Baltimore were sealed off by deputy federal marshals, who coordinated their movements by walkie-talkie. Cooperative witnesses were given safe-conduct out of the building by a route that eluded reporters. But William Muth, 63, a Baltimore politician and former fund raiser for Agnew, met a different fate after he had cited the Fifth Amendment and refused to say anything at all. Muth was turned loose at the courthouse garage entrance where the newsmen were massed ? a procedure similar to providing a Christian a path to freedom that led directly through the lions...
...that el Lider, at once a kind of Latin Mao and second Mussolini, might magically solve the country's problems. The task would be difficult enough for a man in his prime, but Perón is 77 and ailing. The tragedy may be that Argentina's fate is now in the hands of a man who has the will to change it, but is too old and too sick...
Whatever symbolic or ideological potential the story of La Grande Bouffe might have had, whatever opportunity for Swiftian outrage or the savage surrealism of a Bunuel, is extinguished by Ferreri's obstinate insensitivity. It could conceivably be argued that the film is a metaphor for the fate of a society sated by its own prosperity, obsessed by its own comforts. It is difficult, however, to credit such subtleties to a director whose idea of a good visual pun is a man holding a turkey between his legs while a woman cuts the squealing bird's head off with...
...because B.U.'s faculty lacks the power and cohesiveness necessary to determine the fate of a B.U. president, the president -- with a discipline code -- can retain both defense contract research and the less genteel forms of military support. Silber, with control over B.U.'s purse strings, does not need the faculty to legitimize his position. But although Bok now seems to believe that the protest over ROTC would not threaten the Faculty's research, only the Faculty could bring Harvard ROTC back...
Land-use laws diminish not only the traditional rights of landowners but also the power of local governments. As a result, home rule-the right of local governments to determine their fate without outside interference-has become the banner under which opponents of planning rally. The issue is at the heart of controversies from Utah, where rural counties do not want to be told by the state how to deal with their land, to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where islanders are hotly debating whether to accept the Federal Government's jurisdiction over their development...