Word: fated
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Witness, for example, the fate of a recent advertising creation, a wacky, Day-Glo pink duck, an escapee from the Cadillac crest, that has been playing a lead cartoon role in ads for the '97 Catera. The "Caddy that zigs" is aimed at younger, entry-level luxury buyers in their 30s and 40s, almost a generation behind most traditional Cadillac owners. The duck may entertain such prospects, but it also infuriated many Cadillac loyalists and even some of GM's top brass. In the past, the duck and the campaign (as well as whoever was in charge) might have ended...
...Antarctic are memories of ice ages, of volcanic eruptions, of epochal changes in winds and rains. These memories are encrypted in dust particles, rare molecules and the properties of the ice itself. The tales they contain of thousands of years of climate changes provide intimations, and warnings, of our fate. That is why people like glaciologist Kendrick Taylor of Nevada's Desert Research Institute are drawn here. By drilling to the base of the ice sheet and extracting a 3,300-ft.-long series of ice cores, he hopes to answer new and urgent questions about the nature of global...
...second varsity boat encountered a similar fate as it defeated MIT, while falling to Northeastern by 2.3 seconds. Both the first and second novice crews won their respective races...
...programming promises to be well produced and occasionally diverting, in an info-junk food sort of way. But quality, or lack of it, may have little to do with the new venture's fate. With dozens of channels fighting for a limited amount of space on the cable dial, a fuzzily conceived network like Eye on People lacks the gotta-have-it factor. Indeed, only about 2 million cable homes will get it initially. That figure could grow to 10 million by year's end, if the network's optimistic projections hold true. But even at that, the number...
These stories make clear what the longer expanses of his novels tend to obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested--as was Flannery O'Connor--in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence. The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: "Sometimes I try to imagine what it's like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern." The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker...