Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priority. "It is extremely important," he says, "that we not only stop the pollution of Lake Superior but see to it that the people dependent on Reserve for their livelihood continue to have jobs." More months may pass before the Reserve case-and Silver Bay's fate-are finally decided. Whatever happens, vows Ruth Ericson, wife of a Reserve lab analyst, "if we go down, we're going down in a blaze of glory. On July 7 we're going to put a barricade across the road into town, and then we're going to throw...
...city's future may be the fate of central Beirut. Before the war, this was the commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal...
...alternative to the bourgeois life they disdain. Each character is as individual as the ideology he or she has adopted, ranging from Max, a former revolutionary whose total cynicism masks his despair, to Marcel, an artist who finds animals more interesting than people and who is preoccupied with the fate of the whale, to Madeleine, an efficient secretary who espouses tantrism and returns constantly to the value of holding back one's semen so the lotus will explode in one's head. But they are all borderline cases, and they know it. Despite their ideological differences, they learn...
...gods who controlled their destiny. The Sumerians apparently perceived a regularity in the grouping of stars, and used their knowledge of stellar movements to help mark the passage of the seasons and fix the times for planting and harvesting. The Assyrians assumed that the stars determined man's fate, and regarded the movement of planets into various constellations as omens of good or evil...
...very massive star may have an even stranger fate. Driven by its own immense gravitation, it collapses through its neutron star stage, crushing its matter into a volume so small that it virtually ceases to exist. The gravity of its tiny remnant is so great that nothing, not even light, can escape from it. All external evidence of its presence disappears, and the star, like the Cheshire cat, vanishes, leaving behind only the grin of its disembodied gravity. Anything that fell into such a "black hole" would quite literally be crushed out of existence...