Word: fateful
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...NAFTA's fate next month will probably turn on 20 votes among Congressmen from Florida and Louisiana, who insist that sugar and citrus producers in their districts should continue to be protected from free-market competition, and that U.S. consumers should be protected from buying less-expensive Mexican imports. The treaty provides for a 15-year adjustment period on sugar imports, but it also allows the Mexicans to export sugar freely after seven years if that nation has a surplus. Sugar-state lawmakers are worried that the Mexicans will substitute corn syrup and other sweeteners for domestic use and divert...
...Mark-Alem digs deeper into the history and subconscious of the nation through its dreams of the past several centuries, he uncovers a strong personal and historical connection with the fate of his country and native land, Albania. One night at a dinner with his family he hears for the first time his family's legendary epic song. He is struck by how the "words and voice alike might as easily have come from the mouth of dead as of the living." The music of the strange boxlike instrument the musicians carry is akin to "the hollow...inside...
...these stunned faces are familiar to us. We see them every day on television, in newspaper and magazine photos. They haunt our century. And our anxious imaginings. For these are the faces of those whom cataclysm has inexplicably spared and who must now pass their borrowed time contemplating fate's enigmatic workings...
People made fun of Chicken Little when he ran around shouting that the sky was falling. But in the past year, respected scientists have come to the realization that the end of civilization may come from the heavens. Humanity may be in as much danger from the fate of the cosmos as from the error of our ways...
Trustees met to debate and decide upon the fate of the recommenda- tions last night, but Stevens could not bereached to confirm the outcome...