Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lawyers haggle over the tests that could decide Simpson's fate...
...eyes and replied, quietly and evenly, "Don't wait for me. I am never going to the United States. I am not doing this for you. I am doing this for my country. I was born a Russian, and I will die a Russian." But what will be your fate, asked the American, if your spying is discovered? The reply came in Russian: "Bratskaya mogila" -- a common, unmarked grave...
Each chapter in the fate of Rwanda confirms just how much the catastrophe is the gruesome product not so much of tribal hatreds as of political ambition. The leaders of the defeated Hutu government continued to issue warnings of reprisals, mutilation and death if the refugees went home. Having lost the country, they were determined to hold on to the population and feed its hatreds in the hope of turning it one day into an invading force. For the victorious rebels of the largely Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front, the only hope for consolidating power as a legitimate government...
...decided that my fate resided in the South,not in botany labs," Chat-field said...
...Robertses' dismay, the merger with CBS would have sliced Comcast's 15% stake in QVC to 4.9% of the new company; even though the Robertses would have profited handsomely from the deal, it would have left them with little voice in the fate of the shopping network they had nurtured. Moreover, regulations limiting cross-ownership would have kept Comcast, the nation's third largest cable-TV operator with revenues of $1.3 billion, from ever taking a seat on the merged company's board or increasing its holdings beyond 5%. "We were open with Barry about our predicament because of government...