Word: fated
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Viet Nam will continue to affect the U.S., as the fate of Nixon's "peace with honor" rests on the shaky base of the Saigon government's survival. The echoes of the Christmas bombing will linger, and partly account for the odd lack of triumph in Washington as the cease-fire approached; the terms of the settlement will be bitterly debated for years to come. Yet the obsessive preoccupation with Viet Nam is bound to recede, and thus a relieved President may turn more conciliatory as he leads the U.S. into the complex postwar world. Said Nixon in his address...
...feel called upon to meet this scale and meet the demands of the board in somewhat startling manner of enclosing an honorable discharge with the salary checks of the women involved. Eleven women were laid off in this fashion in December, nine others having met a similar fate the preceding month...
...defeat of the Journal itself hardly characterized the fate of the ideas upon which it had been founded. As the years went by almost all of them became incorporated into The Crimson's own outlook. United, then Associated Press news entered; pictures multiplied far beyond the Journal's dreams; the editorial page lost much of its verbosity and dryness and brought in more and more features and critical elements to make its material increasingly readable; frequent attempts were made to capture graduate school and Radcliffe readership; and makeup worked up to and beyond the Journal's standards of splashiness...
Trudeau's fate, in short, is at the mercy of Canada's socialist-minded New Democratic Party. The October election reduced the Liberal representation in the 264-member House of Commons from 146 to 109. The Progressive Conservative Party won 107 seats, the Quebec-based populist Social Credit Party took 15, and independents have two. The remaining 31 seats-and the balance of power-belong to the N.D.P., led by shrewd former Labor Lawyer David Lewis. As long as the N.D.P. supports Trudeau on key votes, his government will survive and another election will be delayed...
Blaine, then Samuel J. Randall, John G. Carlisle and finally Tom Reed-appointed committee chairmen, dictated legislative priorities, and then determined the fate of their bills by the simple power of whom to recognize on the floor. By 1890, Reed was so contemptuous of the White House that he spurned presidential invitations to discuss his congressional plans. It was Reed who told a colleague in 1892: "I have been 15 years in Congress and I never saw a Speaker's decision overruled, and you will never live to see it either." The apex of House rule was reached under...