Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge liquor stores participate in the program. The Cambridge License Commission uses a lottery system to select sting targets on a given evening. Those unlucky individuals who are caught by the program face the harshest of consequences, but it is their poor luck alone that accounts for their special fate. Countless minors continue to purchase alcohol unobstructed. Granted, the example of others may serve as a deterrent, but there are far more just ways of enforcing the law. If the CPD wishes to crack down on the illegal purchase of alcohol, they should focus the brunt of their efforts...
...evidenced by the popularity of this year's Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates had the lowest payroll in baseball this past year, and they were competitive in their divisional race for most of the season. Their surprising success excited fans across the nation, but, ultimately, they suffered the fate of all other small market teams. They could not keep up with teams possessing better-paid, more talented players...
More than the fate of South Korea has dropped into the laptops of the technocrats from Washington. The Asian crisis brewing since the summer has reached the Code Red stage. With Thailand and Indonesia receiving IMF bailouts, the fund has become the main hope for containing the East Asian upheavals before they spread to Japan, and from there perhaps to the U.S. Thailand, which came running to the IMF this summer, is getting a $17 billion aid package. Indonesia will get about $23 billion. South Korea initially asked for $20 billion, but last week its Finance Minister indicated the package...
This is not to say that Plays Well With Others has to be depressing: death is only how the story ends. As the literature of this emerging genre insists, the characters are far more important than the fate that eventually befalls them. The novel's first character is the narrator, writer Hartley Mims, jr., who chooses to spell junior "with a lowercase letter because it's quirky and who "planned on becoming a New Yorker when [he] was eight." His story begins when he moves to the Big Apple from Falls, North Carolina in 1980 to pursue a career...
However, the fate of the project remains to be seen pending a Dec. 18 meeting of the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals, at which residents will express their concerns. A Nov. 20 meeting with the city proved inconclusive after a clash between University sponsors and protesters...