Word: fateful
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...third lesson is that the fate of countries big and small rests in the hands of currency traders, who have suddenly become the most powerful and warlike tribe on earth and can throttle a banking system at will...
Serra, a highly confident technocrat who oversaw the NAFTA negotiations for Mexico, had misjudged the importance of hand holding in the world of high finance, especially when the hands control your country's fate. Money managers in the U.S. were stunned. During the Salinas era they had grown accustomed to being alerted in advance to any major change in Mexico's financial policies. In a reaction that reflected professional pique as much as considered judgment, they dumped Mexican securities as fast as they could...
Weld's approval of the bill, which both houses of the state legislature passed in the final minutes of the legislative year on Tuesday, seals the fate of rent control in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline, the three communities in Massachusetts with rent control laws...
...accord is heightened military tension in the region. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole had said the Senate might question the "legality and wisdom of aiding North Korea." Perry also said that North Korea has been keeping promises to halt its nuclear program, even during tense negotiations over the fate of Bobby Hall...
...accused Russia of violating Chechens' human rights and British officials called for an end to the fighting. In Grozny, another Russian reformer, Sergei Kovalyov, emerged from three weeks in the besieged presidential palace to warn, "It's unacceptable for a country to lie constantly. Grozny now will decide the fate of Russia...