Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shepherd his country through the process of negotiating an end to apartheid, President F.W. De Klerk liked to think of himself as South Africa's Mikhail Gorbachev ? bringing the equivalent of glasnost to the National Party. Of course, he was unaware that he would soon share Gorbachev's fate at the polls, where newly enfranchised voters rejected him as a symbol of the past. That loss has haunted him. Today the 60-year-old De Klerk resigned the leadership of what is now the main opposition party, believing it could not shed its racist image under his stewarship. "Regardless...
...Cambodia's very name reeks of slaughter. The West needs to be reminded of its immense cultural heritage, and of the struggle--against all odds--to preserve it. Only a handful of Western historians and curators, mainly in France and America, are experts in ancient Cambodian art, and its fate within Cambodia for the past few decades has skirted catastrophe. Much of it has been looted from unguarded sites for the voracious Western art market...
...FATE WORSE THAN DEATH As if nursing homes don't already have a bad reputation, nearly a third of seriously ill patients in hospitals report they would rather die than wind up in one permanently...
...face wears defeat as its due. The sheriff of a Jersey suburb overrun by venal New York City cops, he is seen as a genial buffoon. Even the metallic voice of a video game tells him, "You have no authority." He seems almost at ease with his fate--one of those rare men who don't dare to dream or think of themselves as hero material. Imagine an older Rocky Balboa who got clobbered until he was half deaf, and whose Adrian dumped him to marry the town scumball...
...airliner crashes in the first paragraph of a novel. The author, who, of course, has decreed the time and place of the crash as well as the passenger list, has a number of choices. Does he thread backward, exploring the chilly ironies of Fate's dice rolling? Forward, tracing a bizarre linkage of events unexpectedly tumbled into motion? Does he find sabotage, corporate greed, a pilot who memorized an eye chart he could no longer read...