Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision about the fate of President Neil L. Rudenstine's ROTC compromise proposal, alumni across the nation are evaluating the plan...
...ledger. Its 208 pages contained a surprise: the index for a vast archive of documents, photos and military artifacts concerning every American taken, dead or alive, during the Vietnam War. The ``Red Book,'' as it was called by the Vietnamese, turned out to be the key to discovering the fate of some of the 2,211 service members the U.S. listed as missing in action in Indochina. Schweitzer worked quickly to scan the pages, storing the images on a thin magnetic tape in his machine. Back at his hotel, he telexed a U.S. intelligence officer in Bangkok that...
These aren't really characters; they are points on a rigidly conceived political spectrum. From the moment you meet him, you know, for example, that Rapaport's miserable character has only one fate and one function: to bring the movie to a predictably bloody, conventionally instructive but emotionally abstract conclusion. Singleton has made all the right political moves given his complicated circumstances, but he hasn't really made a movie of them...
...pose a strong challenge. The standard bearer of the liberal-reform faction, Zhu Rongji, 66, Deng's | economic czar, has watched his star soar as last year's GDP grew nearly 12%, to $509 billion. But despite admission by Marxist stalwarts that economic liberalization has saved China from the fate of the defunct Soviet bloc, the economy has become dangerously overheated. Zhu's tough measures to curb growth clearly stem from his sense of how directly his own power is tied to the nation's balance sheet. But in the process he has alienated military officers by taking away their...
...then the world has grown ever more complacent about Rushdie's predicament even as he has done his share of -- entirely justified -- complaining and hectoring; the author now resembles, in some minds, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, a man doomed by an unwitting offense to go on talking about his fate to any listener he can corner...