Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recover her health. But financial constraints, Marguerite's less-than-spotless reputation and Armand's stalled future in foreign affairs further impede their happiness. Monsieur Duval, Armand's father, delicately played by Lionel Barrymore, persuades her to return to the baron shortly before she succumbs to her tragic fate...
...even a guerrilla-style insurgency waged by the country's former President, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, whose lust for power remains undampened by the popular coup that deposed him nearly two years ago. The revolt in Abkhazia, where a small minority of ethnic separatists want an independent state, has put the fate of Georgia on the line. In Sukhumi, where he has set up headquarters, Shevardnadze has vowed to keep his nation whole or die trying...
...want to parade the same witnesses to tell the same stories in two successive trials, the brothers are being tried simultaneously before two separate juries. The juries listen to the same evidence, except when testimony concerns only one brother. Then, the jury that will decide the fate of the other leaves the courtroom...
...felt the power of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's words before. In 1980 youthful members of a militant fundamentalist group in Egypt called Jihad (Holy War) were secretly forming a new cell and sought out their spiritual leader for guidance. What, they asked the sheik, would be the fate of a ruler who ignored the law of God? Abdel Rahman's reply: "Death...
...hunt for dark matter is not just an academic exercise. It is a quest to know the fate of the universe. The unseen material makes up at least 90% of the mass in the cosmos, generates most of the gravity and thus controls the universe's evolution. If there's enough dark matter producing a sufficient amount of gravitational force, the universe will eventually stop expanding and then collapse in an apocalyptic Big Crunch. If there's not, the expansion will go on forever...