Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balance the budget, I voted with him"; Newt's picture moved toward Blute. "But when he wanted to increase taxes, I voted against him"; Clinton's picture faded into the distance. "And when he wanted to cut education, I voted against him"; Gingrich's picture suffered the same fate. Clever, but not enough. Blute lost to Jim McGovern, who incessantly pointed out that Blute had voted with Gingrich 85% of the time, and whose ads took advantage of a fortuitous rhyme: "You wouldn't vote for Newt; why would you ever vote for Blute...
...second time Bhutto has suffered such an ignominious removal--the military backed her expulsion in 1990. It is also the third time in six years a Pakistani Prime Minister has been kicked out in midterm. While the move is ominous for the fate of democracy, Leghari had other danger signals to consider. In the past few weeks, protests by the country's main Islamic party had torn into major cities, including Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. The cry in the streets was corruption. And in Pakistan the figure most often paired with that word is Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's husband...
...fortunes fall and rise and rise and fall. Recently her image has been tarnished by allegations of her husband's corruption and an unseemly political feud with her mother and brother, who was killed in a police shootout in September. But she retains a haughty sense of her own fate and prerogatives, and if Leghari's complaints do not bar her from running, she will challenge her dismissal at the polls. "I am not one of those leaders who sell lies and buy time," she told TIME recently. "No leader, no dictator could do what I have done...
...highest positions in the country. Because of this smooth move, Yeltsin won the presidential election, while Lebed walked right into a trap. He was too blind and inexperienced politically to see that dropping out of the race for President and going to work for Yeltsin was putting his fate in the hands of his rival. Yeltsin got what he wanted: a second term as President of Russia. And once he had won the election, he dismissed Lebed...
Last week three students in Mather House were caught trying to install a satellite dish on the roof of the house. They weren't arrested, but disciplinary action of some sort is almost certain. Normally, we'd leave these heinous felons to the fate they so richly deserve, but given the arbitrary and harsh nature of College justice, we thought we'd write a plea on their behalf...