Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration had already barred one participant in the grade strike from teaching this semester, and students who failed to meet a Monday deadline for turning in the grades faced the same fate. The assistants are paid about $4,970 per semester...
...Antonio. On Monday the space agency unvieled images from the Hubbell space craft showing galaxies never seen before. And on Tueday NASA released pictures showing the death throws of stars. "We've known for a long time how stellar objects burn up and that it's a fate our own sun will one day endure," says Lemonick. "But we've never had such incredible pictures showing the process in such detail." Said astronomer Howard Bond: "We've only got five billion years to get out of town...
Finally, bosses gathered in "round tables" of 15 or 20 people to debate the fate of individual employees, each represented by the employee's supervisor or the supervisor's boss. About 300 round tables were held company-wide through November and December; some are still going on. Says an AT&T manager: "On the whole, people felt it went well, that the right people were selected. But there were voices of dissent. You needed to have a good mentor selling your case, some said. And the chess game hasn't stopped. There are rumors that a lot of the slotting...
...quickly cuts himself off: "Enough, enough: away with this soap-box! Unplug this loud-hailer, and be still, my wagging finger!" The true subject of The Moor's Last Sigh is language in all its uninhibited and unpredictable power to go reality one better and rescue humans from the fate of suffering in silence...
...some 24,000 Muslims unaccounted for in 3 1/2 years of Balkan war. Many are believed to have been executed by Serbs and burried in mass graves near Srebrenica and the Lucovica mines, and Muslim officials hope to use Serb prisoners as a bargaining chip to learn the fate of those missing...