Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look at two people spinning on the charred cinders of this planet who may be saying to themselves: "Look, the abyss over which you lean is yourself. The pain you feel is just as unendurable as you think it is. The jokes you make as a fencer against fate merely underline your epitaph." If so, the playwright may count his luck as equal to his talent, for one can scarcely imagine more gifted and sensitive actors than David Clennon and Bella Jarrett for conveying his purpose and his vision...
...Nixon's message to arouse heated opposition. As in the past, the real question is whether the Administration's performance will match its rhetoric. Critics maintain that the White House has often failed to press vigorously enough for passage of its own environmental bills. Whatever the fate of his legislative package, Nixon made it clear that he is determined to tackle two key issues. "The costs of pollution," he stated, "should be met more fully in the free marketplace, not in the federal budget"-meaning that cleanup costs will be reflected in higher prices for goods and services...
Several restaurants, including Legal Sea Food in Inman Square, have expressed an interest in purchasing the store, but McNally said the central management of Hungry Charley's has given him a free hand in deciding the fate of this branch...
...more positive response came, surprisingly, from a Gaullist Deputy, Jacques Sourdille of the Ardennes region, who announced that he would soon introduce a liberal abortion bill in the National Assembly. The fate of that measure depends partly on the election outcome. If the Gaullists are defeated, the bill-or a similar one-is almost certain to pass. If they win, Sourdille's permissive bill may be defeated, but public opinion is nevertheless expected to force at least some degree of reform...
...latest crisis was right out of a grade-B melodrama. A bankrupt railroad was being struck by a union that had seen better days over the fate of 5,700 superfluous brakemen. A bankruptcy court ordered a reduction in the work force last December, and management decided to drop the brakemen through attrition. Even though no workers were to be fired, the union's president, Al Chesser, did not care to see his ranks depleted, and he authorized a strike. Before Chesser's men went back to work some 160,000 commuters had to find alternate ways...