Word: fated
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...become increasingly clear, the ideological coalition Romney so eagerly courted no longer controls the fate of the GOP, at least in the early voting states - which have favored Mike Huckabee, a populist who trumpets the occasional role of larger government, and John McCain, a legislative maverick who does not always play by the Republican rulebook. Romney tried to run as the establishment candidate, only to find that the establishment no longer held the power...
...This final Romney gambit is likely to determine more than just the fate of one, well-heeled candidate. It could set the course for the Republican Party. In the old days, those who supported tax cuts for the wealthy worked closely with those who wanted to amend the constitution to ban gay marriage. Those who wanted to grow the size of the military made common cause with those who saw global warming as an environmentalist scare-tactic meant to interfere with free markets. Those who wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade also wanted to overturn campaign finance reform...
...overwrought soap opera, Italy's latest government crisis is almost anticlimactic. Prodi took office in 2006 with a razor-thin majority in the Senate, backed by disparate allies who didn't trust each other; most of them possessed enough votes to trigger a collapse. But the fate of the coalition and the career of the former European Commission President is largely beside the point. Fifteen years after the dismantling of a corrupt ruling class was supposed to have paved the way for reform of public life, Italy's entire political system is broken. Rather than sleaze, it is now mired...
...that the man who sparked the current predicament, Mastella, hails from the region of Campania, home to a wretched public-works emergency - trash has gone uncollected for weeks. And that is not the only reminder that distracted political leadership has direct consequences on people's lives. Another is the fate of a bill crafted by the Ministry of Social Affairs setting badly needed national standards for long-term elderly and disabled care. Raffaele Tangorra, a top technical official in the Ministry, would have expected no opposition to this nonpartisan proposal were it pushed through Parliament, as planned, this spring...
There used to be a popular idea, up until a few days ago, that the world's economies had "decoupled." The United States, though worth 29% of the planet's GDP, no longer controlled the economic fate of everyone else, the thinking went, thanks to the rise of the global consumer, Europe selling to Asia, Asia selling to Asia. And so the increasing number of signs that the U.S. was headed toward recession - falling retail sales, weak jobs numbers, a cratering real estate market - were not really so worrisome. Even if growth in the U.S. lagged, everyone else would...