Word: fateful
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...shortly, the commission is to start work next April. It will be authorized to penetrate all levels of secrecy inside the banks, but unfortunately for those who want swift answers, it has been given up to five years to finish its task. The panel will try to trace the "fate of assets which reached Switzerland as a result of National Socialist rule" in Germany. That includes questions of complicity with the Nazis, illicit profits, and illegal gold and currency transactions. Individual claims by the relatives of Jewish victims, however, will be left to the Volcker commission...
...fate of a Japanese maple that stands in the way of the planned condominiums is also an issue...
Money to do that will be easy to come by for both sides, however, if the fate of the House still hangs in the balance. The Federal Election Commission has indicated that big donors who gave the maximum before the court ruling can start all over again for the runoffs. And every sort of special interest can be expected to descend on Dallas and Houston, airlifting in bales of contributions. "The amount of money that's going to be dumped into that state after the election will be awesome," says Elizabeth Wilner, who follows House races for the Cook Political...
...been the only thing that helped Grove build Intel into one of America's most profitable corporations (while pocketing a few hundred million of his own in the process), but the inescapable--albeit unstated--message of this book is that Grove's tremendous success owes a substantial debt to fate. In a high-tech economy where sudden change is the norm, the book reminds us that it takes more than a good head for business to survive...
Holy Cross has had its share of trouble this year. Two weeks ago, the team was blown out by Columbia, 42-16. Last week, the team suffered the same fate at the hands of Dartmouth, losing...