Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assets in Moscow. A defense researcher who was a leading expert on stealth aircraft technology, Tolkachev was identified in the documents Ames turned over. The CIA later concluded that Tolkachev had first been betrayed by renegade CIA officer Edward Lee Howard, but that Ames' identification helped to seal his fate. Tolkachev was executed on Sept...
...because during human evolution, before television, such images did reflect risk-local risk. Further galvanizing us is the fact that bombings are intentional; aspiring bombers are out there somewhere, to be stopped. Death by traffic mishap, in contrast, has no plan, no perpetrator. It seems the inexorable working of fate or chance, and we accept each year's statistics, if we notice them at all, with resignation...
Media coverage of Grant's case has played a major role determining her fate. An anonymous package of newspaper clippings of her 1991 trial was delivered by a courier service to Harvard inlate March...
...people in Switzerland. And so I found myself home in Oxnard, California--Strawberry and Lima Bean Capital of the World, summer training home of the L.A. Raiders and probably the only place in the universe named after bull testicles--with no job and no pecuniary prospects for the summer. Fate, in the guise of Scott, my best friend from high school, soon took care of my woes and secured me a position at the movie theater where he was employed. I began to think that perhaps kismet was leading me down the "Cinema Paradiso" path. And though I felt that...
...been several months now since Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 indicated that the fate of the housing lottery system was up in the air--again...